Ingredients

• 3 1/2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 3/4 cup oil
• 1/2 cup white raisins
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
• 2 teaspoons grated orange peel
• 1/2 cup cognac
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 cups orange juice
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• cinnamon for sprinkling
• 10 teaspoons sugar

Instructions

• 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.