Maraschino Cherry Cake

Ingredients

• 1 (8 ounce) bottle maraschino cherries, cut up, with juice
• Milk
• 3 1/4 cups all-purpose flour, divided
• 1/4 pound walnuts or pecans, chopped
• 1 cup butter
• 2 cups granulated sugar
• 4 eggs, separated
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda

Instructions

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Pour cherry juice into cup and fill with milk to measure 1 cup.
3. Sift 1/4 cup flour over cherries and nuts.
4. Cream butter and sugar well, adding yolks one at a time, beating well.
5. Add cherries and nuts.
6. Sift baking powder, baking soda and 3 cups flour and add alternately with liquid to butter mixture.
7. Fold in beaten egg whites.
8. Bake in greased and floured 9-inch fluted tube form for one hour.