Orange Slice Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

4 eggs
1 stick butter
2 c. sugar
1/2 c. buttermilk
1 tsp. soda
1 lb. orange slice candy
1 c. dates
2 c. pecans
3 1/2 c. self-rising flour

Preparation

Cream sugar and butter.
Add eggs, one at a time.
Dissolve soda in buttermilk.
Cut orange slice candy into small pieces. Roll candy, dates and pecans in flour before mixing into cake.
Add this mixture to sugar, margarine and egg mixture.
Add flour.
Bake in tube pan for 2 hours and 45 minutes at 250\u00b0.