Swedish Orange Cake

Prep Time:

Cook time: 45 minutes

Serves:

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

Ingredients

 * 1/2 cup butter


 * 2 eggs, lightly beaten


 * 2 cups all-purpose flour


 * pinch salt


 * 1 cup brown sugar


 * 1 cup sour milk (stir 1 tblsp lemon juice or white vinegar into sweet milk and let stand for 10 minutes to clabber)


 * 1 teaspoon baking soda


 * 1 cup chopped walnuts


 * 1 cup chopped raisins


 * rind of 1 orange, grated




 * Icing


 * 1/2 cup fruit sugar (icing sugar may be substituted if desired)


 * Juice of 1 orange

Directions (standard cake mixing order)


 * 1) Cream butter.


 * 1) Cream in brown sugar.
 * 2) Beat in orange rind.
 * 3) Beat in lightly beating eggs.


 * 1) Sift salt with flour.


 * 1) Stir baking soda into sour milk.


 * 1) Beat flour and sour milk into batter alternately.


 * 1) Stir in chopped walnuts and raisins until well incorporated.


 * 1) Bake at 350 F for 45 minutes or unitl done.


 * 1) Combine fruit sugar and orange juice and pour over hot cake in pan.