Categories: Cakes 
      Yield: 6 servings 
  
  2 1/4 c  Flour                               1 c  Diced pitted dates 
      1 c  Sugar                               1 c  Whole fresh cranberries 
    1/4 ts Salt                                2    Eggs, well beaten 
      1 ts Each baking powder                3/4 c  Salad oil 
           And soda                            1 c  Each sugar and orange juice 
      1 c  Chopped walnuts                 
  
  Source: Sunset Magazine, December 1961 
   
  Prepared somewhat like Baba au Rhum, this cake is soaked in syrup. 
   
  Sift the flour, measure and sift into a bowl with the sugar, salt, baking 
  powder, and soda. Stir in the nuts, dates, cranberries, and orange peel. 
  Combine the eggs, buttermilk, and salad oil; stir into flour mixture until 
  well blended. Pour into a well-greased 10- inch tube pan; bake in a 
  moderate oven (350Ü) for 1 hour. Let stand about 15 minutes. Remove cake 
  from pan and place on a rack over a pan. Heat the sugar with orange juice 
  until dissolved; pour over cake, catching several times. Set cake in a deep 
  dish, and pour over remaining drippings.