Swedish Orange Cake

Prep Time:

Cook time: 45 minutes

Serves:

Description
A tasty cake that my mother used to bake in the 1940s and 50s.

Ingredients

 * ½ cup butter
 * 2 eggs
 * 2 cups all-purpose flour
 * pinch (½ tsp) salt
 * 1 cup light brown sugar lightly packed
 * 1 cup sour milk (stir 1 tbsp or more lemon juice or white vinegar into warm sweet whole milk and let stand for 10 minutes to clabber or use buttermilk)
 * 1 teaspoon baking soda
 * 1 cup coarsely chopped walnuts
 * 1 cup coarsely chopped raisins
 * rind of 1 orange, grated
 * 9" square cake pan lightly greased and floured

Glaze

 * ½ cup powdered (icing) sugar
 * juice of 1 orange

Directions

 * 1) Cream butter.
 * 2) Cream in brown sugar until light and fluffy.
 * 3) Beat in eggs one at time and then salt.
 * 4) Beat in half of flour.
 * 5) Stir grated orange rind into sour milk.
 * 6) Holding cup over batter for foaming, stir baking soda into sour milk and beat sour milk into batter.
 * 7) Beat in remaining half of flour.
 * 8) Stir in chopped walnuts and raisins until well incorporated.
 * 9) Pour into prepared pan and bake at 350°F for 45 minutes or until done.
 * 10) Meanwhile, combine powdered sugar and orange juice for glaze.
 * 11) When cake is done, remove from the oven and let stand for 10 minutes.
 * 12) Turn out onto wax paper on plate and then turn over onto plate with topside up.
 * 13) Spoon glaze over hot cake and let cool.