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Apple Sauce Fruit Cake Recipe
Serves: 6
Keywords: Pies, 1941, recipe, recipes, Apple Sauce Fruit Cake Recipe
Ingredients
2 1/3
c
Thick well-drained apple sauce
1
c
Shortening
4
Eggs, well beaten
1
c
Whole wheat flour
4
ts
Baking soda
1
c
Nuts, broken
3
ts
Cinnamon
1
ts
Mace
1
ts
Allspice
1
ts
Cloves
2
ts
Nutmeg
2/3
c
Molasses
2
c
Brown sugar
6
tb
Lemon juice
4
c
White flour
1 ¾
ts
Salt
2
lb.
Seeded raisins
¼
lb.
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.