Dried-Apple Cake

Ingredients

• Two cups of sweet dried apples
• two cups of molasses
• one cup of sugar
• two eggs
• one-half cup of sour cream
• one-half cup of sour milk
• one-half cup of butter
• two teaspoonfuls of soda
• four cups of flour
• four teaspoonfuls of cinnamon
• one teaspoonful of cloves
• one nutmeg

Method

1. 1

   Soak and chop dried apples overnight.

2. 2

   Simmer with molasses for two hours.

3. 3

   When cold, add sugar, eggs, sour cream, sour milk, butter, soda, flour, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The universal cookery book (1887) by Gertrude Strohm, page 76. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Dried-Apple Cake. Two cups of sweet dried apples, soak over night, and chop; add two cups of molasses, and let it simmer two hours ; when cold add one cup of sugar, two eggs, one-half cup each of sour cream, sour milk, and butter; two teaspoonfuls of soda, four cups of flour, four teaspoonfuls of cinnamon, one teaspoonful of cloves, and one nutmeg

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