Applesauce Cake 
                                        (this recipe was taken directly from “Little Heathens”)

Ingredients

1 ½ cups sugar
½ cup butter
1 egg
2 ½ cups flour
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cocoa
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 cups applesauce
2/3 cup raisins
¾ cup walnuts or pecans

Cream together sugar and butter. Add egg and beat. Mix all remaining dry ingredients (saving raisins and nuts to stir in last) together in a separate bowl. Alternately add dry ingredients and applesauce to sugar and butter, beating after every addition. Finally, stir in nuts and raisins. Pour into a greased and floured 13x9x2 loaf pan and bake in 350 degree oven for forty-five minutes or until completely done in center.