Orange Slice Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 sticks butter
1 1/2 c. sugar
4 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla flavoring
2 c. plain flour
1 tsp. soda
1/2 c. buttermilk
1/2 lb. pitted dates
1 lb. orange slice candy, cut up
2 cups pecans, chopped
1 small can coconut

Preparation

Mix pecans, dates and candy.
Dredge in 2 tablespoons of flour; add coconut.
Melt butter and pour over first mixture; set aside.
Beat eggs and sugar.
Mix remaining flour and soda good. Add buttermilk.
Pour first mixture over this.
Use spoon to mix all together.
Bake in a 10-inch tube pan (grease pan well), no smaller.
Bake in preheated oven at 300\u00b0 for 2 hours.
Cool before removing from tube pan.