A good day to bake....

With the cold temperatures that are outside where many of you live, it is a good day to heat up the oven and bake something!  I believe that's what I will be doing later.

Back in December, just about a month ago, we celebrated birthdays in our family.  I have shared the cake and recipe for Munchomom's cake, but have really had to scramble to come up with a picture to show Country Girl's cake.  We let it leave the house without remembering that all-important picture.

We kept this for The Husband to enjoy.

In 1979, when Mother had her first heart attack, we brought her to our house to recuperate.  That brought about some dietary changes for us, one of which was switching to corn oil margarine.  At that time, I chose Mazola.  On the inside of one of the cartons was the following recipe for Orange Cake.  You will notice that I have not used corn oil margarine.- for this one.:-)

ORANGE CAKE
3 sticks butter, softened
2 cups sugar
3 1/2 cups flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup orange juice
2 teaspoons grated orange rind
6 egg whites whipped to stiff peaks
3/4 cup chopped walnuts, added at the request of Country Girl, but not part of the original recipe
- At medium speed, beat butter, gradually adding sugar until blended. 
- Combine flour, baking powder, and salt.  Add to creamed mixture alternately with orange juice, using low speed.  Add orange rind.  (I added the walnuts here).  Fold egg whites into batter.
- Pour batter into greased and floured tube or bundt pan.  Bake 60 minutes at 350 degrees F.  Cool 10 minutes in pan.  Remove; cool.  Dust with powdered sugar, if desired. 

China above is Strawberries and Cream, now discontinued, by Villeroy and Boch.

I send along the admonition to stay safe and warm in this wave of winter weather that is spreading most of the eastern part of the United States.

Thank you for reading.  I really appreciate your comments.