- ¼ cup butter (generous measure).
- 1 cup light brown sugar.
- 1 cup apple sauce (not sweetened).
- 1 level teaspoonful soda.
- 2 cups flour.
- 1 teaspoonful cinnamon.
- ½ teaspoonful cloves.
- 1 small nutmeg, grated.
- Pinch of salt.
- 1 cup raisins.
Cream together butter, sugar and spices. Add apple sauce and flour. (Dissolve the soda in apple sauce.) Add a cup of seeded raisins or raisins and currants, if preferred. This recipe may be doubled when it makes a very good, cheap fruit cake, as no eggs are required, and it both looks and tastes like a dark fruit cake.
ICING.
One cup pulverized sugar, piece of butter size of a walnut. Moisten with a little water and spread on cake.
"SCHWARZ" CAKE
This delicious black chocolate or "Schwarz" cake, as Aunt Sarah called it, was made from the following recipe:
- 1½ cups of sugar.
- ½ cup butter.
- ½ cup sweet milk.
- 1 even teaspoon of soda (saleratus).
- 3 eggs.
- 1 teaspoonful of vanilla.
- 2 cups flour.
- 1½ teaspoon of Royal baking powder.
Before mixing all the above ingredients place in a stewpan on the range ½ cup of grated chocolate and ½ cup sweet milk; allow them to come to a boil, then stand this mixture aside to cool and add to the cake mixture later.