Apple sauce fruit cake

6 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
2⅓ cup 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
⅔ cup Molasses
2 cups Brown sugar
6 tablespoons Lemon juice
4 cups White flour
1¾ teaspoon Salt
2 pounds Seeded raisins
¼ pounds 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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