So tonight I looked through my old recipe box and found this:
Starter:
1 cup sliced peaches, drained & cut up
1 8 oz can pineapple chunks
3 maraschino cherries
1 ½ cups sugar
1 ½ packs dry yeast
.... Combine yeast, peaches, pineapple, cherries, and sugar. Stir with a wooden spoon 3 or 4 times the first day. Then stir daily for 2 weeks. Store on counter in glass jar with lid barely set on..... Then continue...
Friendship Cake: Put 2 cups sugar and 28 oz peaches into large jar with starter. Stir daily....on 10th day add 2 cups sugar and 19 oz crushed pineapple. Stir daily. On 20th day add 2 cups sugar and 2 9 oz jars maraschino cherries, drained. Stir daily. On 30th day drain off starter and give 1 ½ cups to each of 5 friends (will keep 10 days in fridge)
Ingredients for Cake: 4 pk white or yellow cake mix with pudding; 16 eggs; 1 ½ cups oil; 4 cups chopped walnuts. Use 2 pks to coat fruit. Mix 2 pks with eggs & oil... Add fruit mix. Fill loaf pans ½ full. Line pans with brown paper. Cook at 350 * F for 60 min.
Yield: 7 loaf pans.
Maybe this is what you are looking for?