Orange Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

4 large whole eggs
1 c. Crisco
2 c. sugar
1 tsp. soda
1 1/3 c. buttermilk
4 c. flour
1 c. (chopped) pecans
1 pkg. dates, chopped
2 Tbsp. orange peel (grated)
1 Tbsp. orange flavoring

Preparation

Mix sugar and
Crisco.\tAdd
eggs, beaten.
Add soda to buttermilk.
Mix alternately
with flour.
Bake in tube pan at 275\u00b0 or 2 hours or longer.