Holiday Walnut Cake

Total Time: 2 hrs Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup sherry wine
• 2 cups raisins
• 1 orange
• 4 cups walnuts
• 4 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon nutmeg
• 6 eggs
• 1 cup butter
• 2 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup molasses
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Recipe

• 1 grease 10" tube pan.
• 2 cut wax paper to fit bottom of pan, insert, grease and flour.
• 3 pour sherry on raisins.
• 4 heat oven to 275.
• 5 chop walnuts, grate orange and squeeze juice from orange.
• 6 sift flour with baking powder, salt and nutmeg, save 1/4 c of flour for nuts & raisins.
• 7 beat eggs until thick.
• 8 cream butter and sugar add in beaten eggs.
• 9 drain raisins (reserving liquid) and combine with nuts and the 1/4 c flour.
• 10 add juice of orange & sherry alternately with dry ingredients, combine all with the creamed butter/sugar/egg mixture and stir in vanilla.
• 11 add floured nuts and raisins last.
• 12 bake for 2 hours.
• 13 cool thoroughly before removing from tube pan.