Friendship Cake

Day 1: Pour brandy and sliced peaches (each cut into several pieces) with juice into gallon jar. Add 2 cups sugar. Stir. Cover jar loosely and keep at room temperature. Stir every day for 10 days. All sugar may not dissolve for several days. Do not cover air tight. It may foam. Day 10: Add pineapple and juice. Add 2 cups sugar. Stir daily for 10 days. The color may change and fruit will foam. Day 20: Drain cherries. Discard juice. Cut cherries in half and add to fruit. Add 2 cups sugar. Stir, continue as before for 10 days. Day 31: Preheat oven to 300. Grease & flour 2 tube pans, using solid shortening. Drain fruit into a large bowl and let drain for 1 hour. Pour juice into 3 pint jars. Pour 1 box cake mix, 1 box pudding, 4 eggs, 2/3 c oil, 1/2 of fruit into large bowl. Stir with spoon til well mixed. Stir in 1 cup each raisins, walnuts, pecans, and coconut. Pour into tube pan. Bake 90 minutes. Repeat for second cake. Make only 1 cake at a time. The pint jars of juice are the starters. Never refrigerate them. Day one must start 3 to 4 days after the fruit has been drained. It is not necessary to add brandy when using a starter. Cake may be frozen. Slice thin
it is rich. You may want to sop up some of the juice from the drained fruit with a paper towel before mixing with other ingredients, because if it is too moist the cake will fall apart.