Bob and Melinda Blanchard hiking the east coast, Barbados, WI

Ingredients:

1/4-tsp. salt
2 cups granulated sugar
8 cups flour (2 lbs.)
4 tsp. baking powder
8 oz. margarine
3 eggs
1 cup milk
1/2-tsp vanilla extract
1/2-tsp almond extract
1 cup coconut flakes
1/2-cup raisins
1-1/2 cups Glace cherries, chopped
pinch cinnamon and nutmeg.

Directions:

1. Mix flour, baking powder and salt.
   
2. Rub in margarine until coarse like breadcrumbs.
   
3. Add sugar, vanilla and almond extracts, raisins, coconut and chopped Glace cherries.
   
4. Beat eggs, and milk together. Make a hole in the centrer of the dry mixture, add liquid mixture and mix together.
   
5. Place mixture in two greased loaf pans and cook at 350 degrees F for approximately 45 minutes.