Granny Rice's Traditional Fruitcake

Total Time: 2 hrs Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 30
• 1 lb candied red cherries
• 1 lb candied green cherries
• 1 lb candied date
• 1 lb candied pineapple
• 1 lb chopped pecans
• 4 (8 ounce) packages flaked coconut
• 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 2 (14 ounce) sweetened condensed milk

Recipe

• 1 pre heat your oven to 300 degrees. lightly grease a 10 inch tube pan and line the bottom with greased parchment paper, not wax paper it will melt into the cake.
• 2 in a large mixing bowl chop fruit and pecans.
• 3 add the coconut and mix well with your hands.
• 4 stir in flour and sweetened condensed milk.
• 5 blend well, i use my hand for this as well, it is quite a thick mixture.
• 6 pack mixture firmly into prepared tube pan.
• 7 bake for 1 1/2 hours at 300 degrees. remove from oven, run a knife around the edge of the pan. whe the cake is just above room temperature remove the bottom of pan and paper from the cake.