Date & Orange Cake

This recipe is one that Mum used to make us when we were growing up. scrunchy at the bottom and cake at the top. Delicious. I remembered it and found it in Mums recipe book. it tastes just like I remember it all those years ago.

DATE & ORANGE CAKE

• 4 ozs Butter
• 8 ozs Plain Flour
• 8 ozs Soft Brown Sugar
• 2 tsp Baking Powder
• 1/4 tsp salt

……Rub into crumbs

……Put half mixture into a well greased 12” x 8” cake tin

……To the remaining crumbs add

• Zest of an Orange
• 4 ozs chopped dates ( I always use double )
• 1 Beaten Egg
• 7 fl oz milk
• 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of Soda

……Stir together

……Pour carefully over the crumbs in the tin.

Bake 40 mins, 180 deg C preheated

( Fan Oven 170 deg C preheated )

Turn out when almost cold