Recipe - Apple Sauce Fruit Cake

2 1/3 cup Thick welldrained apple
sauce
1 cup Shortening
4 Eggs, well beaten
1 cup Whole wheat flour
4 teaspoon Baking soda
1 cup Nuts, broken
3 teaspoon Cinnamon
1 teaspoon Mace
1 teaspoon Allspice
1 teaspoon Cloves
2 teaspoon Nutmeg
2/3 cup Molasses
2 cup Brown sugar
6 tablespoon Lemon juice
4 cup White flour
1 Three fourths teaspoon Salt
2 pound Seeded raisins
One fourth pound Citron, thinly cut or sliced up

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
paperlined 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 325 F) about 2 hours. Mrs. S.F. Caruso, Laurel, MT.

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