Recipe - American Applesauce Cake

One half cup Shortening
1 cup Firmly packed light brown
sugar
1 cup Applesauce
2 One fourth cup Allpurpose flour
One half teaspoon Baking soda
One half teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Baking powder
Three fourths teaspoon Applepie spice
1 cup Chopped nuts

Cream shortening; add sugar gradually, beating until light and fluffy. Add
applesauce. Sift together dry ingredients and add to creamed mixture. Fold
in nuts. Pour into loaf pan (9 x 5 x 3 inches) lined on the bottom with
greased wax paper. Bake in preheated slow oven (325 degrees F.) for about 1
hour. Cool for 5 minutes. Turn out on rack and peel off paper. Cool, and
frost as desired.

Posted to EATL Digest by Al & Diane Johnson johnson@NEGIA.NET on Sep
11, 1997