Recipe for Ethel's Orange Cake

Ingredients for Ethel's Orange Cake:
1 Cup
butter 
3 Cups white flour 
1-2 Cups sugar 
1
Cup flaked coconut 
4 eggs 
1 Cup chopped walnuts
 
1/2 Cup orange juice 
8 ounces chopped dates 
1
teaspoon baking soda

Ethel's Orange Cake preparation instruction:
Grease well and lightly flour two 9 x 5 x 3
inch loaf pans. Preheat
oven to 300 degrees F. 
In a large bowl
cream butter and gradually beat in sugar. Add eggs one at a time and beat
well after each. 
Sift together flour and baking soda. Stir the dry
ingredients into the
butter mixture in three parts, alternating with the
orange juice. Mix nuts,coconut and dates and fold gently into
batter. 
Pour batter into greased pans and bake for 1 to 1-1/2
hours
or until golden brown. Mix together 1/2 Cup of orange juice and
1
Cup of powdered sugar and pour over cakes in pans while still hot. Cool
inpans on racks. Wrap in aluminum foil when cool and freeze if
possible.
 
Makes two loaves.