Recipe - Heavenly Orange Bread

4 (up to)
5 Oranges
1 cup Water
1 teaspoon Baking soda
1 cup Sugar
1 cup Water
2 Eggs; beaten well
1 cup Sugar
1 cup Milk
3 One fourth cup Flour
3 teaspoon Baking powder
One half teaspoon Salt
3 tablespoon Melted butter
1 cup Nuts; chopped

Peel oranges & cut rind into fairly large pieces, making sure there is no
white. Place rind in saucepan with 1 cup water & baking soda & boil for 10
minutes. Wash the rind in a strainer & remove any lefton white. Cook the
rind with 1 cup sugar & 1 cup water until mixture is thick & most of the
syrup is gone. Beat eggs until light & add 1 cup sugar & milk. Sift dry
ingredients together & add to the egg mixture. Combine all with butter,
nuts & orange peel. Bake at 350 for 1 hour or until done.

MRS C.B. (JUDY) MAPES

From the The Bliss of Cooking Returns, Fort Bliss Officers Wives Club,
Ft. Bliss, TX. Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive,
http://www.erols.com/hosey.