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Applesauce Cake  
Carmen & Bill Biddle  
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cup shortening  
½ cups sugar  
beaten eggs  
cup thick applesauce  
cups flour  
½ teaspoon soda  
1 teaspoon cinnamon  
1 or 1 ½ cups raisins  
¼ teaspoon salt  
½ cup chopped nuts (optional)  
teaspoon baking powder  
Cream shortening and sugar; add eggs and beat well. Add applesauce, then dry ingredients.  
Beat until smooth; fold in raisins and nuts. Bake in greased and floured tube pan at 350º for  
55 minutes. Serve plain or frosted, or sprinkle with powdered sugar. Can make in two loaves.  
Prune Cake  
Olive Jacobson--recipe from Alfhild Peterson  
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eggs  
½ cups sugar  
cups flour  
cup buttermilk  
cup cooked, pitted prunes  
cup walnuts  
1 teaspoon salt  
1 teaspoon soda  
1 teaspoon allspice  
1 teaspoon cinnamon  
1 teaspoon nutmeg  
1 teaspoon vanilla  
Icing (see below)  
cup vegetable oil  
Blend sugar and oil, add eggs and mix well. Sift all dry ingredients together and mix into  
batter, alternating with milk. Add prunes, nuts, and vanilla. Pour into an ungreased 9 x 13  
pan. Bake  
for 1 hour at 325º. Leave cake in pan and while still hot punch holes into cake with a fork.  
Pour the following icing over immediately. (Punch holes entire length of fork tines.)  
Icing:  
1
cup sugar  
1/3 cup butter  
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½
cup buttermilk  
teaspoon soda  
1 tablespoon white syrup  
½ teaspoon vanilla  
Boil above ingredients until it forms a soft ball. Pour over cake immediately. Do not  
overcook. Begin making icing about 15 minutes before cake is done so it will be ready to pour  
over hot cake.  
White Frosting  
Harriet Stanley  
2
2
egg whites  
cups powdered sugar  
¼ cup Crisco  
1 teaspoon almond flavoring  
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