CALIFORNIA FRUIT CAKE

¾ cup sifted flour
2 cups chopped pitted dates
¼ teaspoon baking powder
1½ cups chopped dried apricots
½ teaspoon baking soda
1½ cups walnut pieces
½ teaspoon salt
1½ cups flaked coconut
¾ cup brown sugar
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Mix flour, baking powder, soda and salt into a bowl. Add brown sugar, dates, apricots, walnuts and coconut and mix well. Add well-beaten eggs and extract and blend well. Put batter into an 8x8 greased foil pan and smooth top carefully. Bake in a preheated 300° oven about an hour. Cool 15 minutes, remove cake from pan.