Orange Date Cake

This one is for those that like Dates....

Orange Date Cake
Mrs. john O. Fife

1/2 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 whole orange and rind
1 cup dates or raisins
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon soda
pinch salt
1 cup sour milk

Cream shortening and sugar together; add eggs,. Grind together 1 orange and rind and 1 cup dates or raisins. Add to other ingredients. sift flour, soda and salt. add flour and sour milk to other mixture. Bake in 13 x 9 x 2-inch pan 40 minutes at 350 degrees. When you take cake from oven, have 1/2 cup sugar and juice of 1 orange heated to boiling. pour over cake. Let stand several hours or overnight.