Bavarian Orange Cake Lascoutx

Ingredients
1 cup Butter
1 cup Sugar
3 Eggs separated
3/4 cup Sour Cream
1 rind of an Orange grated
1 rind of a Lemon grated
2 cup Flour
1 teaspoons Baking Powder
1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
1 cup ground Walnuts
1 pinch Salt

Method

Cream butter and sugar. Beat in egg yolks (one at a time), stir in sour cream and finely grated orange and lemon rind. Sift flour, baking powder and baking soda. Sift flour into butter mixture 1/2 cup at a time and fold in walnuts (or hazelnuts). Beat egg whites with salt and fold into batter. Pour batter into buttered and floured 9 inch tube pan and bake in a moderate oven for 50 minutes. Let stand in tin 5 minutes, then turn out.

In a bowl combine juice of one orange and one lemon and 1/2 cup finely granulated (castor) sugar, stir until sugar is dissolved and brush on cake.