Apple Sauce Fruit Cake
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Cakes
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Desserts
Ingredients: 2 1/3
cups
Thick well-drained apple,
sauce
1
cup
Shortening 4
Eggs,
well beaten
1
cup
Whole wheat flour 4
teaspoons
Baking soda 1
cup
Nuts,
broken
3
teaspoons
Cinnamon 1
teaspoon
Mace 1
teaspoon
Allspice 1
teaspoon
Cloves 2
teaspoons
Nutmeg 2/3
cup
Molasses 2
cups
Brown sugar 6
tablespoons
Lemon juice 4
cups
White flour 1 3/4
teaspoons
Salt 2
pounds
Seeded raisins 1/4
pound
Citron,
thinly sliced
Directions:
Cream sugar and shortening. Add apple sauce, which has been sieved to remove all lumps, molasses, eggs, and lemon juice. Sift white flour, measure, and sift with baking soda, salt, and spices. Dredge raisins in whole wheat flour. Add white flour mixture to batter gradually.
Beat thoroughly. Add dredged raisins. Put a layer of the batter into a paper-lined baking pan. Add a layer of citron and nuts, cover with a layer of the batter. Repeat, having the top layer of the batter.
Bake in a slow oven (300 to 325 F) about 2 hours. Mrs. S.F. Caruso, Laurel, MT.
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