3/4 c Butter
1 c Sugar
3 Eggs
1 c Buttermilk
2 c Flour
1 Grated orange rind
1 c Cut-up dates
1 c Ground nuts
1 ts (heaping) soda
3/4 c Sugar
1 1/2 c Orange juice
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 3/4 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,
Yields
1 Servings