Orange and Cranberry Cake

Photo: flickr user SuziJane

Ingredients

2 1/4 cups Flour

1 cup Sugar

1/4 teaspoon Salt

1 teaspoon Each baking powder

And soda

1 cup Chopped walnuts

1 cup Diced pitted dates

1 cup Whole fresh cranberries

2 Eggs, well beaten

3/4 cup Salad oil

1 cup Each sugar and orange juice

Preparation

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 (350 ) 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.