Orange Candy Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 lb. butter or margarine
2 c. sugar
4 eggs
1 tsp. soda
1/2 c. buttermilk
3 1/2 c. plain flour
1 tsp. rum flavoring
1 box pitted dates, chopped (8 oz.)
1 lb. orange candy slices, chopped
1 small can grated coconut
2 c. chopped pecans
1 c. frozen orange juice, undiluted
1 c. powdered sugar

Preparation

Cream butter and sugar; add beaten eggs, one at a time. Dissolve soda in buttermilk; add to creamed mixture alternately with flour, reserving 1 cup flour.\tStir mixture after each addition;
add flavoring.
Stir reserved
flour
over
chopped fruits, candy and nuts.
Mix well;\tfold
into
cake
mixture. Place in floured and greased tube pan;
bake
at
300\u00b0
for
3 hours.
Mix orange juice and sugar;
pour
over hot cake while it is still in pan.
Cool cake thoroughly before removing from pan.