Orange & Cranberry Cake

  2 1/4 c  Flour
      1 c  Sugar
    1/4 ts Salt
      1 ts Each baking powder
           And soda
      1 c  Chopped walnuts
      1 c  Diced pitted dates
      1 c  Whole fresh cranberries
      2    Eggs, well beaten
    3/4 c  Salad oil
      1 c  Each sugar and orange juice

Prepared somewhat like Baba au Rhum, this cake is soaked in syrup. Sift the flour, measure and sift into a bowl with the sugar, salt, baking powder, and soda. Stir in the nuts, dates, cranberries, and orange peel. Combine the eggs, buttermilk, and salad oil; stir into flour mixture until well blended. Pour into a well-greased 10- inch tube pan; bake in a moderate oven (350ø) for 1 hour. Let stand about 15 minutes. Remove cake from pan and place on a rack over a pan. Heat the sugar with orange juice until dissolved; pour over cake, catching several times. Set cake in a deep dish, and pour over remaining drippings.


Yield: 6 Servings