Name: Orange-Date Cake
Ingredients: 1 (7 oz.) pkg. dates, chopped; 4 cups all-purpose flour; 1 cup pecans, chopped; 4 eggs, separated; 1 cup shortening or butter; 1 1/3 cups buttermilk; 2 cups sugar; 1 tsp. baking soda; 2 Tbsp. grated orange rind; 2 cups sugar; 1 cup orange juice; 2 Tbsp. grated orange rind

Method

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Step 1: Mix the topping first: stir the sugar, orange juice and rind occasionally to dissolve the sugar. Do not cook.
Step 2: Dredge the dates and nuts in a small amount of the flour.
Step 3: Cream the shortening, adding the sugar gradually, and cream well.
Step 4: Add the beaten egg yolks.
Step 5: Sift the flour 3 times. Dissolve the soda in the buttermilk.
Step 6: Add the flour alternately with the buttermilk.
Step 7: Fold in the floured dates and nuts and the orange rind.
Step 8: Fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites.
Step 9: Bake at 300°F for 1½ hours.
Step 10: While the cake is still hot from the oven, puncture holes all over the top with an ice pick.
Step 11: Strain the topping and pour it over the cake. Leave the cake in the pan so the topping soaks in.

What we changed or couldn’t read (4)

Quantities for pecans and shortening are missing in the source ('Cup pecans', 'Cup shortening'); shown as 1 cup each (best guess).
Topping orange juice amount is garbled ('" Cup'); shown as 1 cup (best guess).
Source reads 'lz hours'; shown as 1½ hours.
Pan size is not given; a 10-inch tube pan fits this volume.

Orange-Date Cake

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