Keik nistsimo (lenten cake)

1 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
3½ cup Flour
1 teaspoon Baking powder
¾ cup Oil
½ cup White raisins
1¼ cup Sugar
½ cup Chopped walnuts
2 teaspoons Grated orange peel
½ cup Cognac
1 teaspoon Baking soda
2 cups Orange juice
2 teaspoons Cinnamon
Cinnamon for sprinkling
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.

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