Dried Apple Cake

Ingredients

• three cups of dried apples
• two cupfuls of N. O. molasses
• two beaten eggs
• one cupful of sugar
• one cupful of milk
• one-half cupful of butter
• two teaspoonfuls of soda
• spice to taste
• flour enough to make a stiff batter

Method

1. 1

   Soak the dried apples overnight, chop them, and simmer with molasses for two hours.

2. 2

   Add the eggs, sugar, milk, butter, soda, spices, and flour to make a stiff batter.

3. 3

   Bake as you would fruit cake.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 10 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The century cook book (1894) by Jennie A. Hansey, page 72. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Dried Apple Cake. Soak three cups of dried apples over night in warm water. In the morning chop or cut them into small bits, put in a stew pan with two cupfuls of N. O. molasses and simmer for two hours ; add two beaten eggs, one cupful of sugar, one of milk, one-half cupful of butter, two teaspoonfuls of soda, spice to taste, and flour enough to make a stiff batter

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