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Buttermilk Pecan Fruitcake Recipe


BUTTERMILK PECAN FRUITCAKE Recipe Birdy / All my dishes
9 months, 3 weeks ago
This is a nice holiday bread without all that fruit in it. Most people who fear "fruit cakes" will eat this one.
Prep:20m Cook:65m Servings:8

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Ingredients
  • 4 1/2 cups Flour
  • 2 teaspoons Baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon Baking soda
  • 1 tteaspoon Salt
  • 3 cup Pears, dried, chopped
  • 2 cups Pecans, chopped
  • 1 cup Butter, unsalted
  • 3 cups Sugar
  • 4 large Eggs
  • 2 teaspoon Vanilla (real thing honey!)
  • 2 cups Buttermilk

Directions
  1. Preheat oven to 400; grease and flour 4 loaf pans.
  2. Separate eggs. Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda,
  3. and salt. Add pears and pecans; stir again. Set
  4. aside. In large bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add egg
  5. yolks, one at a time, beating well after each
  6. addition. Add vanilla and beat again. Alternately add
  7. dry ingredients and buttermilk, blending well after
  8. each addition.
  9. With clean dry beaters, beat egg whites until they
  10. stand in firm, glossy, moist peaks. Fold 1/3 egg
  11. whites into batter to lighten it, then fold in
  12. remaining whites. Fill each pan 2/3 of batter.
  13. Reduce oven heat to 350. Bake 65 minutes, until
  14. tester inserted in center of each cake comes out
  15. clean. Ten minutes before cakes are done, rotate pans
  16. back to front to cakes on each rack brown evenly. Let
  17. cakes cool five minutes on wire racks, then turn out
  18. and finish cooling right side up on wire racks.
  19. Before serving, decorate top of fruitcakes with whole
  20. nuts and mixed candied fruit peel.

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