astray recipes: Broiled orange cake

Categories: Cakes; Post to bak; To post
Yield: 16 Servings

Measure	Ingredient
1	Stick Butter Or Margarine
1 cup	Sugar
1	Egg
2 cups	Sifted Flour
1 teaspoon	Baking Soda
¼ teaspoon	Salt
1 cup	Buttermilk
1 cup	White Raisins, ground
	Rind Of 1 Orange, grated
½ cup	Chopped Nuts -Topping---
	Juice Of 1 Orange
	Juice Of 1 Lemon
1 cup	Sugar
1 tablespoon	Melted Butter
	Whipped Cream As Garnish

FOR THE CAKE: Cream butter, add sugar, and blend. Add unbeaten egg and beat well. Sift dry ingredients together and add alternately with buttermilk.

Blend in raisins, orange rind, and nuts, if desired. Pour into 8 x 11 x 2-inch pan and start in cold oven set at 325ø. Bake until well done, about 1 hour. Test for doneness with toothpick; cake is done when toothpick comes out clean.

FOR THE TOPPING: Combine orange and lemon juices with sugar and melted butter. Pour over cake. Place under broiler until topping browns sllightly, but watch carefully not to burn. Serve warm or cold with whipped cream.

Keep cake in pan to retain moisture.

Source: "Mountain Measures"--Junior League of Charleston, WV ed. 1974 Recipe by: Mrs. T. A. Galyean Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #616 by Bill Spalding <billspa@...> on May 28, 1997

broiled orange cake