Jam Cake

Total Time: 2 hrs 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 36
• 5 eggs, beaten
• 2 cups sugar
• 3 cups flour
• 1 cup butter or 1 cup margarine
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 1/2 teaspoons cloves
• 1 1/2 teaspoons nutmeg
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup blackberry jam
• 1 cup pecans
• 1 cup raisins
• 1 cup dates

Recipe

• 1 to help keep fruit and nuts from settling to the bottom, put them in a plastic bag and add about 1/2 cup of the flour to it and gently shake them up.
• 2 remember that the 1/2 cup of flour is here and make the adjustment in the 3 cup called for in the recipe.
• 3 grease loaf pans and line with brown paper (i use 2- 9x5x3 pans).
• 4 mix ingredients together in order given.
• 5 fill pans 2/3 full.
• 6 bake for 2 1/2 to 3 hours in 275-300 degree oven.
• 7 cool on wire rack.
• 8 right now, these cakes are not fit to eat.
• 9 i wrap mine in wax paper, then put in bread wrapper and put in a cool dry place (not refrigerator).
• 10 i check them in a week.
• 11 the next week one will get cut.
• 12 after that one is gone, if no one comes by pretty soon, i cut the next one.
• 13 sorry about their luck.