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Ingredients Jump to Instructions ↓

  1. 1 cup butter

  2. 2 cups sugar

  3. 4 eggs, separated

  4. 1 tsp. soda

  5. 1 1/3 cups buttermilk

  6. 4 cups flour

  7. 1 pkg. dates

  8. 1 cup nuts Sauce:

  9. 3 cups sugar

  10. 1 1/2 cups orange juice

  11. 2 Tbsp. orange rind

  12. 1 tsp. lemon juice

Instructions Jump to Ingredients ↑

  1. C ream butter and sugar. Add egg yolks and beat. Add buttermilk and flour alternately, saving 1/2 cup flour to dredge dates and nuts. Add them with orange rind. Beat egg whites until very stiff. Fold into cake mixture. Bake at 3 0 0 for 1 1/2 - 2 hours . To make sauce - heat sugar, orange juice, orange rind and lemon juice just long enough to melt sugar. Do not boil! Remove cake from oven and while hot, pour sauce over. Set to cool. Remove cake from tube.

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