Aunt Emma's Danish Pudding

Sauce

1 cup sugar
1 cup orange juice
1 orange rind

Mix sugar and juice and rind of 1 orange but do not cook. I use California oranges because they have a thick skin.

Pudding

½ Lb. Butter
1 ¾ cup sugar
3 eggs
3 cups flour
1 ½ teaspoon baking soda
1 cup buttermilk
1 pkg. dates (8 oz.)
1 cup black walnuts
1 teaspoon orange juice
pinch of salt
1 teaspoon grated orange rind

Preheat oven to 350° Fahrenheit. Line tube pan with wax paper and grease well. Bake Pudding ingredients for 1 hour 15 minutes or until done. When you take it out of the oven let stay in pan and pour sauce over it at once while still hot.

Original from Aunt Emma Lamphier - Dayton, Ohio March 18, 1966