Sour Cream Orange Nut Loaf - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 orange
1 tsp. baking soda
8 oz. sour cream
1 1/2 c. sugar
3/4 c. shortening
2 eggs
2 c. flour
sprinkle of salt
1/2 c. walnuts and/or 1/2 c. raisins
1/2 tsp. vanilla
orange peel

Preparation

Grate orange for cake batter.
Mix baking soda with sour cream in a large container, as it swells (almost doubles).
Beat together sugar and shortening until creamy, then eggs.
Add flour and sprinkle of salt alternately with sour cream, then add walnuts and/or raisins, 1 teaspoon vanilla and orange peel.
Bake in loaf pan about 1 hour at 325\u00b0.
Remove from oven and immediately pour over the juice of the orange with 1/2 cup sugar.