Summer Squash Orange Cake (1982)

• 3 cups flour
• 3 tspns baking powder
• 1 tspn salt
• 1 tspn cinnamon
• 1 tspn nutmeg
• 1/4 tspn ground cloves
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 3/4 cups dark brown sugar, packed
• 2 tspns grated orange rind
• 4 eggs
• 1/3 orange juice
• 1 1/2 cup grated squash (summer or zucchni)

Sift the dry ingredients together. Cream the butter, sugar, and orange rind. Beat in the eggs. 

Slowly beat in the dry ingredients alternately with the orange juice. Stir in the grated squash. 

Pour into a greased and floured 10-inch tube pan and bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 50 to 60 minutes. When cooled, sprinkle with powdered sugar or frost.

More "Lost" Squash Recipes

Stuffed Zucchini with Bacon (1950)

Zucchini Chocolate Chip Cookies (1961)

(Origin - "The Victory Garden Cookbook" by Marian Morash, published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.)