Recipe - Orange Peel Cake

1 cup Margarine
2 cup Sugar
4 Eggs; beaten well
4 cup Flour
1 teaspoon Soda
1 One half cup Sweet milk
2 tablespoon Grated orange peel
1 cup Nuts; (walnuts or pecans)
1 pound Dates

GLAZE
2 cup Sugar
1 cup Orange juice
2 tablespoon Grated orange peel

Method: Cream margarine and sugar until light and fluffy. Add beaten eggs.
Add soda, nuts, dates, and orange peel. Then stir in flour and milk
alternately. ( I put the soda in with the flour) Bake in tube pan in 300
degree oven for 1 One half hours or more check for doneness with toothpick or
sharppointed knife. While cake bakes, mix the following ingredients and
let stand, stirring often.

Glaze: Pour One half of above mixture over cake as soon as it is removed from
oven. Poke holes in top of cake with ice pick or clean knitting needle.
When juice soaks in, then pour the remainder of the mixture. Note: this
cake keeps in the refrigerator for weeks if placed in an airtight
container.

Posted to JEWISHFOOD digest Volume 98 #006 by Minelle Paloff
cen17268@centuryinter.net on Jan 06, 1998