Applesauce Cake Circa 1943

Title:
Applesauce Cake Circa 1943

Yield:
10 Servings

Categories:
Sauces,
Dressings,
Gravies,
Etc




Ingredients:





   1/2 c  Vegetable shortening


     1 c  Sugar


   1/2 ts Cloves


     1 ts Cinnamon


     1    Egg


     1 c  Applesauce


     2 c  All-purpose flour


   2/3 c  Raisins -- chopped


     1 ts Baking soda


   1/2 ts Salt


   2/3 c  Walnut meats -- chopped






 Cream together shortening and sugar. Add egg; beat well. Sift together


 flour, soda, salt, cloves, and cinnamon. Add alternately with applesauce to


 creamed mixture. Add raisins and nutmeats. Pour into 9-inch greased tube


 pan. Bake in moderate oven (350 degrees) for 1 hour. Let stand until cold.


 Remove cake from pan.


 


 I have a book called "Cooking Behind the Fence: Recipes and Recollections


 from the Oak Ridge '43 Club." (c1992) It features recipes from the '40s


 when Oak Ridge, TN was fenced and people had to have a security clearance


 to get in. I picked one recipe for you. If you have any particular kind of


 recipe you would be interested in let me know. The person who supplied this


 recipe remembers that there was only one grocery store in the area back in


 1943 and she remembers waiting in line for 2 hours to buy soap powder.


 


 Recipe By     : "Cooking Behind the Fence: Oak Ridge 1943 Club" Cookbook


 


 From: Ladies Home Journal- August 1991


 


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