Orange date cake #1
1 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| ¾ | cup | Butter |
| 1 | cup | Sugar |
| 3 | Eggs | |
| 1 | cup | Buttermilk |
| 2 | cups | Flour |
| 1 | Grated orange rind | |
| 1 | cup | Cut-up dates |
| 1 | cup | Ground nuts |
| 1 | teaspoon | (heaping) soda |
| ¾ | cup | Sugar |
| 1½ | cup | Orange juice |
Directions
Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Drop in whole eggs and beat well. Stir soda into buttermilk and add to mixture; gradually add flour, beating well; add orange rind. Fold in nuts and dates. Bake in greased bundt pan at 350 for 1 hour. Have ready ¾ cup sugar and orange juice.
Remove cake from pan, stir juice and sugar and spoon over cake.
MRS ROSE HEIDELBERGER
TRENTON, 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, .