Orange Slice Cake I

Ingridients

3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 cup butter

2 cups white sugar

4 eggs

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 cup buttermilk

16 ounces orange-flavored fruit slice jelly candies, chopped

1 cup chopped dates

2 cups chopped walnuts

1 cup flaked coconut

1 cup orange juice

2 cups confectioners' sugar

Directions

Sift flour and salt together.

Cream butter or margarine and sugar well. Add eggs, flour mixture, soda, and buttermilk; mix well. Fold in orange slices, dates, nuts, and coconut. Pour batter into a greased and floured tube pan.

Bake at 300 degrees F (150 degrees C) for 1 3/4 to 2 hours. Remove cake from oven. Mix together juice and confectioner's sugar; pour over hot cake while still in pan. Cool cake in pan for 20 minutes. Turn out onto cake plate. Cool completely.