1 1/2 sticks butter
2 c. sugar
4 eggs
Dash of salt
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. vanilla
3 c. flour
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 1/2 tsp. allspice
1 c. buttermilk
1 pt. fig preserves
2 c. chopped pecans

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease and flour 10 inch tube pan. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time. Beat well. Add vanilla. Sift flour, cinnamon, allspice and salt and soda together. Add alternately to creamed mixture with buttermilk, saving a small amount of flour to dredge pecans. Cut up fig preserves and add to mixture. Add pecans. Bake at 325 degrees in prepared tube pan for 1 hour then at 300 degrees for 15 minutes.