Old Fashioned Apple Sauce Cake by bettina

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Old Fashioned Apple Sauce Cake
Submitted by bettina on July 31, 2003 at 1:25 pm

DESCRIPTION
Old-Fashioned Apple Sauce Cake

SUMMARY
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INSTRUCTIONS
If you're a nut like me, you'll have an old Sunbeam Mixmaster, hanging about...three of them live at my house, and all work absolutely perfectly...I get a kick out of using this book, and an earlier edition, from the mid-thirties, talk about retro!

Obviously, the recipes can be prepared by whatever means you wish, but all are quite good, we ran tests!

Preparation:

Have shortening at room temperature. Assemble all ingredients and utensils needed. Grease a deep 8-or 9-inch square baking pan, sprinkle with flour, shaking out excess. Break nut meats in pieces. Sift flour once before measuring. Preheat oven to baking temperature.
Sift together:

2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon cloves
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

Put in large bowl of Mixmaster:

1/2 cup shortening (soft)
1 cup sugar
2 eggs, unbeaten

Beat on No. 8 speed 2 minutes, scraping bowl while beating. Stop mixer.

ADD: 1 cup thick cold applesauce (keep in mind that this would most likely have been sweetened applesauce back then)
3/4 cup raisins or chopped dates
1/2 cup broken walnut meats
Sifted flour mixture

Beat on No. 1 speed for 1 1/2 minutes, scraping bowl while beating. Pour batter into prepared pan.

Bake: (350F)-moderate oven-about 55 minutes. Cool. Ice with Caramel Icing on Page 15 or Sea Foam icing on Page 14.

Makes: 1 medium-sized cake

On another site I ran across, they suggested coating the pan used with a mix of cinnamon and sugar, rather than flour. I've used a straight butter/sugar pan prep for a while now, and it works beautifully.

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