Applesauce Cake

Ingredients

• 2 CUPS FLOUR
• y^. CUP BUTTER, OR OTHER SHORT-ENING
• I TEASPOON SODA
• 2 TEASPOONS CINNAMON
• yi TEASPOON CLOVES
• I CUP SUGAR
• I CUP RAISINS, SEEDED
• I CUP COLD THICK APPLESAUCE, STRAINED

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter, add sugar gradually and beat until light and fluffy.

2. 2

   Mix and sift flour twice with soda and spices.

3. 3

   Add alternately with applesauce to first mixture, a small amount at a time; and stir in raisins dredged with a little flour saved out for the purpose.

4. 4

   Put into a buttered and floured cake pan and bake 40 minutes in moderate oven (350° F.), or bake 15 minutes in patty pans.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Most for your money cookbook (1938) by Cora Lovisa Brackett Brown, Cora Brown, page 112. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

APPLESAUCE CAKE 2 CUPS FLOUR y^. CUP BUTTER, OR OTHER SHORT- I TEASPOON SODA ENING \]/2 TEASPOONS CINNAMON I CUP SUGAR yi TEASPOON CLOVES I CUP RAISINS, SEEDED I CUP COLD THICK APPLESAUCE, STRAINED

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.