Gram's Lighter Applesauce Fruitcake

Ingredients

230 gr butter
400 gr sugar
2 eggs
9 gr vanilla
290 gr pitted dates
700 ml applesauce
240 gr walnuts
325 gr raisins
270 gr mixed candied fruit
1 gr salt
3 gr cinnamon
14 gr baking soda
800 gr all purpose flour
3 greased loaf pans
350 degree oven

Instructions

clean. Remove to a cooling rack. When cool enough to handle, remove the loaves from the pans and cool completely on a rack. Wrap in plastic wrap and keep in refrigerator. The Tampa Tribune, December 1992. ----