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"Old Fashioned" Dried Apple Cake"
From:
- 1/2 gallon flour
- 2 cups sorghum molasses
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 5 whole eggs
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 teaspoons soda
- 3 teaspoons ginger
- 1 cup oleo, melted
- buttermilk (enough to make a stiff dough)
- Mix all together as you would biscuit dough (This makes eight layers)
- Grease and flour cake pans
- Divide dough into 8 equal parts
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Roll each part like you would biscuit dough and fit into cake pan
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You will have to take your hands and press dough to fit each pan
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Bake in 350 degree oven until done. This usually takes about 10-15 minutes
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Fill the layers with filling made from 1 1/2 pounds dried apples, soaked overnight in plenty of cold water.
- The next day, run cold water over apples and drain.
- Add some water to apples and cook on medium heat until tender
- Stir often
- When cooked down until all water is cooked out of apples, mash apple with
potato masher
- Then add:
- 1 1/2 cups brown sugar
- 1 cup white sugar
- 3 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon cloves
- about 1/2 teaspoon allspice
- Mix this really well
- Cook a little, stirring to keep from burning
- Spread between cake layers and on top of cake
- This will make 2 four layer cakes or one eight layer cake

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