Recipe from local Roma Sue Collins

Mrs. Clyde Collins was kind enough to give us this recipe and in fact, she said she would be making the cake that very afternoon because it is her family's favorite. It's in the Choestoe Baptist Church Cookbook and features the orange flavor which is so refreshing this time of year. I can't wait to taste it along with a cup of hot tea or coffee.

Listed after the orange fruit cake & glaze is a bonus recipe she gave us; it is a familiar one and an especially perfect recipe for our homes during this blessed Christmas season of love.
Orange Sliced Fruit Cake
1 cup butter or marg.
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 cup buttermilk
3-1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 lb. chopped dates
2 cups chopped nuts
1 lb. orange slice candy,
chopped
1 can flake coconut
1 cup cherries, chopped
1 cup pineapple, chopped
1/2 cup candied fruit mix

Cream butter and sugar until smooth. Add eggs one at a time. Dissolve baking soda in the buttermilk and add to creamed mixture. Mix the fruit, candy, coconut and nuts together, then add the flour to coat and mix, then add to creamed mixture. Use hands to mix as this is a very stiff dough. Bake in well-greased tube pan that you have also dusted with flour at 250º for 2-1/2 to 3 hours.
Glaze for Orange Sliced Cake
1 cup fresh orange juice (or from frozen concentrate)
2 cups powdered sugar.
Mix well and pour over the cake as soon as it comes out of the
oven. Let stand over night and enjoy!

Recipe of Life
1 cup of good thoughts
1 cup of consideration for others
2 cups of sacrifice for others
3 cups of forgiveness
1 cup of kind deeds
2 cups of well beaten thoughts

Mix these thoroughly and add tears of joy, sorrow and sympathy for others. Flavor with little gifts of love. Fold in 4 cups of prayers and raise the texture to great heights of Christian living after pouring all this into your daily life. Bake well with the heat of human kindness and serve with a smile. Submitted in memory of Mrs. Collins' mother, Nola Nix Turner.