Orange cake #1
1 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1½ | Stick butter | |
| 1 | cup | Sugar |
| 3 | Eggs | |
| 1 | cup | Buttermilk |
| 1 | teaspoon | Soda |
| 3 | cups | Flour; reserve 1/2 cup |
| 1 | teaspoon | Vanilla |
| 1 | cup | Nuts |
| 1 | Orange rind | |
| 1 | pack | (8-oz) dates |
| ¾ | cup | Sugar |
| ½ | cup | Orange juice |
Directions
Cream butter and 1 cup sugar. Add eggs, beating in 1 at a time. Add soda to buttermilk; add alternately with flour to sugar mixture. Grind or grate nuts, orange rind and dates. Coat with ½ cup flour. Add to batter. Bake in 10-inch tube or 9x13 pan at 350 for 1-½ hours. Combine ¾ cup sugar and orange juice; pour over warm cake.
MRS ELTON BATCHELOR (SUE)
MARVELL, AR
From the book <High Cotton Cookin'>, Marvell Academy Mothers Assn, Marvell, AR 72366, ISBN 0-918544-14-9, downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, .