Recipe - Orange Cake

1 One fourth cup Sugar
1 Orange
One half cup Shortening
2 Eggs, well beaten
One half teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Baking soda
1 cup Pitted dates
OR 1 cup raisins
2 cup Cake flour
1 cup Sour milk
One half teaspoon Baking powder

Prize winning cake

Combine One fourth cup sugar and orange juice. Stir until sugar is dissolved.
Cream 1 cup sugar with shortening. Add eggs. Sift flour, measure, and sift
with baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Add alternately with milk to
first mixture. Add dates or raisins which have been ground with orange
rind. Mix until well blended. Pour into welloiled loaf pan. Bake in
moderate oven (375 F) about 45 minutes. Pour orange juice and sugar over
cake before removing from pan. Mrs. Walter T. Palmer Jr., Collingswood,
N.J.

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