Applesauce Cake
Arwilda kept five different recipes with this title.
Green Recipe Box 1 3/4-cup cake-flour formula
Green Recipe Box ingredient-only card
Ingredients
- 1 3/4 cups cake flour
- 1 Teaspoon soda; 1/2 Teaspoon salt;
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon cloves
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup shortening
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1 cup unsweetened tart applesauce.
- 1 cup seeded raisins (if you want them)
Hot-applesauce vanilla, raisin, and nut-meat formula
Frances Reynolds card with Aunt Rachel note
From Frances Reynolds.
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1 3/4 cups sifted flour
- 1 teas Vanilla
- 1 1/4 teas salt
- 1/2 teas cinnamon
- 1/2 teas Cloves
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 1/2 cup nutmeats
- 1/2 teas soda, dissolved in
- 1 cup hot applesauce, unsweetened.
Temperature: hot applesauce
As written
Aunt Rachel -
Decorative Recipe Tin hot-applesauce card
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup shortening; 1 egg
- 1 cup hot apple sauce; unsweetened
- 1/2 teaspoon soda dissolved in apple sauce
- 1 3/4 cup sifted flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon each of cinnamon & cloves
- 1 [ditto: teaspoon] vanilla
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 1/2 cup nut meats chopped fine
Temperature: 1 cup hot apple sauce
Equipment: measuring cups and spoons; vessel for heating applesauce; flour sifter; knife and cutting board for nut meats
Kathy two-cup-applesauce loaf-pan formula
Clear Tote Kathy card
Ingredients
- ½ cup shortening
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 tsp b. powder
- 3 cups flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp cloves
- 1 tsp nutmeg
- Raisins
- 2 cups Applesauce
Directions
- Cream governs shortening, sugar, and eggs. Sift governs baking powder through nutmeg. Add governs applesauce. Raisins sit below the sifted spice list, but their exact addition point is not stated.
- Pour into greased loaf pan and bake.
Timing: about 30 min
Temperature: 350°
Equipment: mixing bowl, creaming utensil, sifter, greased loaf pan, and oven
As written
Kathy
Mrs. Growson Kellogg complete cake-flour formula
Mrs. Growson Kellogg two-card recipe
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cups cake flour.
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp ground cloves,
- 1/3 to 1/2 cup shortening - 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg, unbeaten
- 1 Cup unsweetened, tart applesauce, or canned
- 1 cup seedless raisins
Directions
- Sift flour, measure, and sift 3 times with soda, spices + salt.
- Cream shortening well and gradually blend in sugar.
- Add egg and beat until light and fluffy; Then stir in applesauce.
- Add flour mixture in 3 portions, beating after each addition until well blended.
- Stir in raisins.
- Turn into cake pan (8 in square) lined & with thin plain paper, in bottom.
- Bake in moderate oven (350°F) 45 min.
- Or bake in greased muffin tins or two 8 inch layer 25 to 30 min.
- Cool before serving.
Timing: 45 min.; 25 to 30 min.; Cool before serving; storing for 2 days in a bread box
Temperature: moderate oven (350°F); Cool before serving
Equipment: sifter, measuring tools, mixing vessels and beating utensils, 8-inch square cake pan, thin plain paper liner, oven, greased muffin tins or two 8-inch layer pans, cooling area, and bread box
Notes
- Apple sauce cake improves in flavor after storing for 2 days in a bread box.
Raisin Applesauce Cake, two eggs and mixed leavening
Green Recipe Box Raisin Applesauce Cake card
Ingredients
- 2 Cup flour
- 1 Cup Raisins
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup nuts
- 1/2 " soda
- 1/2 " Shorting
- 1 " salt
- 3/4 " sugar
- 1 " Cinnamon
- 2 eggs
- 1/4 " Cloves
- 1 cup applesauce
Directions
- Bake 350
Temperature: 350
Arwilda’s changes
- Added “1 Cup Raisins”
Compare the cards
Flour, leavening, fat, sugar, eggs, applesauce, spices, and mix-ins
- Green Recipe Box Raisin Applesauce Cake card
- 2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon soda, 1/2 cup shortening, 3/4 cup sugar, 2 eggs, 1 cup applesauce, 1 cup raisins, 1 cup nuts, salt, cinnamon, and cloves.
- Green Recipe Box ingredient-only card
- 1 3/4 cups cake flour, 1 teaspoon soda, 1/3 cup shortening, 1 cup sugar, 1 egg, 1 cup applesauce, and optional 1 cup raisins, with 1/2 teaspoon each salt, cinnamon, and cloves.
- Decorative Recipe Tin hot-applesauce card
- 1 3/4 cups flour, 1/2 teaspoon soda, 1/2 cup shortening, 1 cup sugar, 1 egg, 1 cup hot applesauce, vanilla, 1/2 cup raisins, and 1/2 cup nut meats, with 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon each cinnamon and cloves.
- Clear Tote Kathy card
- 3 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1/2 cup shortening, 2 cups sugar, 2 eggs, 2 cups applesauce, raisins without a quantity, salt, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg.
- Mrs. Growson Kellogg two-card recipe
- 1 1/4 cups cake flour, 1 teaspoon soda, 1/3 to 1/2 cup shortening, 1 cup sugar, 1 egg, 1 cup applesauce, and 1 cup raisins, with 1 teaspoon cinnamon and 1/2 teaspoon each salt and cloves.
Method and baking data
- Green Recipe Box Raisin Applesauce Cake card
- Only Bake 350 is included; no pan, time, or mixing method.
- Green Recipe Box ingredient-only card
- No method or baking data.
- Frances Reynolds card with Aunt Rachel note
- No method or baking data.
- Clear Tote Kathy card
- Cream, sift, add applesauce, pour into a greased loaf pan, and bake at 350 degrees about 30 minutes; combining order and raisin addition remain incomplete.
- Mrs. Growson Kellogg two-card recipe
- Full sift, cream, beat, combine, raisin, pan, 350-degree bake, cooling, and storage method, with 45-minute square-pan or 25-to-30-minute muffin or layer options.
Hot-applesauce duplicate card card notes
- Decorative Recipe Tin hot-applesauce card
- No attribution or personal name appears.
- Frances Reynolds card with Aunt Rachel note
- Recipe from the kitchen of Frances Reynolds; Aunt Rachel appears below with an uncertain role.
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