Categories: Religious

Ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 2 cups orange juice
• 3/4 cups white raisins
• 3/4 cups chopped nuts
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 4 cups flour

Directions

1. Beat together sugar and oil until creamy yellow.

2. Dissolve soda in orange juice and slowly add to mixture

3. Add other ingredients and pour into a 9 × 13 greased pan

4. Bake at 350 for 45-50 minutes

5. Cut into sauares

6. If you have lost something, bake a Fanouropita on the eve of St. Fanourios feast day

7. St. Fanourios is the patron saint of lost articles.

8. He helps people find everything from lost jewelry to good health and happiness

9. Mothers used to bake this cake to ask that their daughters find a good husband

10. Share the cake with 7 or more people, but do not reveal what you are trying to find

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