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    Orange Glaze Cake

    Ingredients

    1 cup butter
    2 cups sugar
    4 eggs, separated
    2 Tbsp. orange rind
    1 tsp. soda
    1 1/3 cups buttermilk
    4 cups flour
    1 pkg. dates
    1 cup nuts
    Sauce:
    3 cups sugar
    1 1/2 cups orange juice
    2 Tbsp. orange rind
    1 tsp. lemon juice

    Directions

    Cream 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 300 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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