Recipe#6359

Title: ENGLISH TEA CAKE

SOAR

   1       c            Butter, softened
   1       c            Sugar
   2                    Eggs
   2                    Scant c flour
     1/2   ts           Baking powder
     1/4   ts           Salt
   1       t            Vanilla
   1       tb           Cherry juice
  12                    Maraschino cherries
     1/2   c            White raisins or currants
  (served at English High Tea)
  
  Preheat oven to 250 degrees.  Grease and flour a small tube pan.  Cream
  butter and sugar. Add eggs, beating thoroughly. Sift flour, baking powder
  and salt together. Gradually add to butter mixture. Add vanilla and cherry
  juice. Fold in cherries and raisins. Bake 1 1/4 hours.