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Ida Bailey Allen’s Orange and Date Cake

Orange and Date Cake

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup milk
• 2/3 teaspoon salt
• 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 cup stoned dates
• The grated rind of one orange
• 1 3/4 cups pastry flour

Instructions

Cream butter and sugar, add eggs, yolks and whites beaten together, then dates, orange rind and milk, lastly the flour, baking powder and salt sifted together.

Beat throughly and bake in two oiled layer cake pans in a moderate oven—about 350°F. When cool, fill and frost.

Filling and Frosting for Orange and Date Cake

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 cups confectioner’s sugar
• The grated rind of half an orange
• Strained juice of one orange
• 1/2 cup dates
• Orange sections and dates for decorating

Instructions

Sift confectioner’s sugar, add grated orange rind and moisten with orange juice. If orange is a very large one entire juice may not be needed. On the other hand, if orange is small a little water may be needed to moisten frosting sufficiently.

To one-half of this mixture add dates, cut into small pieces, and use as filling for cake; frosting with the remaining mixture and decorating with sections of orange and perfect dates.

Recipe from Women’s World calendar cookbook

Source

Allen, Ida Bailey. Woman’s World Calendar Cook Book. Chicago: Woman’s World Magazine Co., 1922. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100770279