3 1/2 cup flour
1 tsp baking powder
3/4 cup oil
1/2 cup white raisins
1 1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
2 tsp grated orange peel
1/2 cup cognac
1 tsp baking soda
2 cup orange juice
2 tsp cinnamon
1 cinnamon for sprinkling
1 10x sugar
Directions
Sift flour into ceramic bowl and mix the baking
powder; scoop out a well in center. Heat oil in
frying pan and pour into the flour. Add raisins,
sugar, nuts, orange peel, cognac, baking soda
dissolved in the orange juice, and cinnamon. Mix to
make a stiff dough. Put into a buttered tube pan or
baking pan and bake in preheated 300 F. oven for abt.
1 hour. As soon as you remove it from the oven,
sprinkle with the cinnamon and confectioner's sugar.
Servings: 1 servings
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