Recipe

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• 2 cups persimmon pulp
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• 1 tsp soda
• 3 cups all purpose flour
• 1 cup milk
• 2 cups raisins or currents
• 2 cups almonds or walnuts chopped
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 tbsp oil
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon

• 1 Mix pulp with lemon and soda then stir in oil.
• 2 Add flour and milk alternately.
• 3 Add remaining ingredients to flour and pulp mixture then mix well.
• 4 Bake in a greased tube pan for 1-1/2 hours at 325.
• 5 Check cake after first hour and if cake is browning too rapidly reduce heat to 300.
• 6 Let cool 10 minutes in pan.
• 7 Poke warm cake with ice pick to make holes then drizzle with brandy.