INGREDIENTS:

• 3 c. flour
• 1 c. sugar
• 2 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 c. nuts, chopped
• 6 eggs
• 2 tsp. anise flavoring
• 2 tbsp. Crisco
• 2 tbsp. margarine
• 1 sm. jar red maraschino cherries,
• chopped (reserve cherry juice)

DIRECTIONS:

• Mix liquid ingredients together. Gradually add dry ingredients,
• then chopped cherries. Place dough on greased cookie sheets in loaf
• fashion, separating loaves with aluminum foil. Bake at 350 degrees
• for 1/2 hour. Ice with mixture of powdered sugar and reserved
• cherry juice.