Swedish Orange Cake

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Prep Time:
Cook time: 45 minutes
Serves:
==Description==
A tasty cake that my mother used to bake in the 1940s and 50s.
==Ingredients==
* ½ cup butter
* 2 eggs
* 2 cups all-purpose flour
* pinch (½ tsp) salt
* 1 cup light brown sugar lightly packed
* 1 cup sour milk (stir 1 tbsp or more lemon juice or white vinegar into warm sweet whole milk and let stand for 10 minutes to clabber or use buttermilk)
* 1 teaspoon baking soda
* 1 cup coarsely chopped walnuts
* 1 cup coarsely chopped raisins
* rind of 1 orange, grated
* 9" square cake pan lightly greased and floured
=== Glaze ===
* ½ cup powdered (icing) sugar
* juice of 1 orange
== Directions ==
# Cream butter.
# Cream in brown sugar until light and fluffy.
# Beat in eggs one at time and then salt.
# Beat in half of flour.
# Stir grated orange rind into sour milk.
# Holding cup over batter for foaming, stir baking soda into sour milk and beat sour milk into batter.
# Beat in remaining half of flour.
# Stir in chopped walnuts and raisins until well incorporated.
# Pour into prepared pan and bake at 350°F for 45 minutes or until done.
# Meanwhile, combine powdered sugar and orange juice for glaze.
# When cake is done, remove from the oven and let stand for 10 minutes.
# Turn out onto wax paper on plate and then turn over onto plate with topside up.
# Spoon glaze over hot cake and let cool.
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