Recipe - Broiled Orange Cake

1 Stick Butter Or Margarine
1 cup Sugar
1 Egg
2 cup Sifted Flour
1 teaspoon Baking Soda
One fourth teaspoon Salt
1 cup Buttermilk
1 cup White Raisins, ground
Rind Of 1 Orange, grated
One half 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
2inch 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 MCRecipe Digest V1 #616 by Bill
Spalding billspa@icanect.net on May 28, 1997