Share the Family Recipes!

Several years ago, I started a cookbook project, with the intent to compile recipes from each of Dell and Pearl's children and their families. Several recipes were collected and I began researching the options for having them published . . . and it was more time-consuming and expensive than I anticipated . . . then all the recipes got stuck in a drawer and thought about less and less.

Until now. Who needs another book on a shelf? We're going online! I am still adding all the recipes I was sent years ago, but it's a start. (Notice the recipes submitted from kids who are now teens?) And I'd love to continue adding! So if you have a recipe to add to our family cookbook, please send it to me in an email and I will get it right up! Feel free to add any anecdotes attached to the dish too. Photos would be great as well!

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Happy eating!

Grandma Nellie's Applesauce Cake (1 2 3 4 5 Cake)

Rosalie Robison Risk

1 cup shortening
¼ teaspoons cloves
2 cups sugar
½ teaspoons allspice
3 cups applesauce (homemade is best)
1 ½ teaspoons salt
4 cups cake flour
2 teaspoons soda
5 eggs
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 cup raisins
½ teaspoon nutmeg
1 cup nuts

Cream shortening and sugar thoroughly. Add eggs and beat. Blend in applesauce. Sift flour with spices, salt, soda and baking powder and add to creamed mixture. Blend thoroughly. Fold in raisins and nuts. Pour into a 9x13' cake pan and bake at 350 degrees for 50-60 minutes.

Mom modifies this recipe for her Christmas fruit cakes, adding fruit cake mix along with the raisins and nuts. She baked them in small loaf pans for each of her children's families . . . as well as for numerous friends. She used more or less the same ingredients, fewer eggs if they're large, and not as much applesauce. She made my wedding cake using this recipe. It's truly a Family Heritage recipe! It's called 1 2 3 4 5 because that's how you remember the main ingredients.

Source: Grandma Nellie Hinckley Robison, modified by Grandma Pearl

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