Orange Slice Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 sticks butter
2 c. sugar
4 eggs
1/2 c. butter
1 tsp. soda
3 1/2 c. flour
1 pkg. (1 lb.) dates
2 c. nuts
1 can coconut
1 lb. orange slice candy, chopped

Preparation

Cream together sugar and butter.
Beat in eggs one at a time. Mix soda into buttermilk.
Mix candy with 1/2 c. flour.
Alternate flour and buttermilk, stirring after each addition.
Add dates and nuts.
Mix well.
Stir candy into batter.
Add coconut last.
Bake in 13 x 9 inch greased and floured pan for 2 1/2 hours at 250\u00b0.