Apple Sauce Fruit Cake

Ingredients

550 gr well apple
190 gr shortening
4 eggs
130 gr wheat flour
18 gr baking soda
140 gr nuts
8 gr cinnamon
2 gr mace
2 gr allspice
5 gr nutmeg
160 ml molasses
450 gr brown sugar
90 ml lemon juice
500 gr flour
5 gr salt
650 gr seeded raisins
1/4 citron

Instructions

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 160ºC ) about 2 hours. Mrs. S.F. Caruso, Laurel, MT.