light fruit cake
Regi Dean's Recipes 1/12/00
Cakes
Donna Martin
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margarine 	1/2cup
sugar	1/2 cup
eggs separated	2
rum	1/2 cup
almond or lemon extract	1/2 tsp
deluxe mix glazed fruit	1 lb
raisins	3/4 cup
walnuts	3/4 cup
flour	1 1/2 cups
baking powder	1/2 tsp
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oven 325 grease and line with double wax paper 2 - 4 x 8 loaf pans

put fuit, raisins & walnuts in a large bowl and dredge with  1/4 cup of the flour

cream margarine  add the sugarand egg yolks beat well      sift the flour and baking powder together    add 
alternately with the rum  mix well  add extract  mix well mix in the dredged fruit and walnuts  mix well

in  a separate bowl beat egg whites until stiff and fold carefully into batter 

pour into pans evenly divided   bake for 1 - 1 1/4 hr.   until toothpick comes out clean

cool in pans 20 minutes and tip out onto rack to cool

when cool wrap separately in saran wrap    store for 2 weeks to ripen