2 cups sugar

2 cups applesauce

1 cup broken pecans or walnuts

1 cup raisins

3 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon nutmeg

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon vanilla

1-3/4 teaspoons soda

 

Cream sugar and butter until light and fluffy;  add applesauce and raisins and nuts which have been dredged in 1/4 cup of the measured flour.

 

Sift all dry ingredients together and add to the mixture.  Pour into loaf or tube pan and bake 2 hours in a slow oven at 325 deg.  Ice with caramel icing.  Cake keeps indefinitely and gets better all the time.