Ingredients for cake
½ cup vegetable oil
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
3 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup raw apples (sliced)
1 cup raisins
1 cup chopped nuts
Dust the apples, raisins and nuts with some of the flour. Set aside. Blend oil, sugar, and slightly beaten eggs. Sift together remaining flour, salt, and soda. Add to egg mixture. Fold in coated apples, raisins, and nuts. Turn into a 10-inch tube pan or angel food cake pan. Bake at 325°F for one hour and 15 minutes. Leave cake in pan several hours before removing.
Sauce for the cake
½ c buttermilk
1 stick oleo (margarine)
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
½ teaspoon soda
Boil the above mixture 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Pour over cool cake while sauce is hot.
Recipe by: Mrs. Ruth Lewis, Letart, West Virginia, via Cookin’ with Maudie Cookbook (Recipes from “The Budget” the Amish Newspaper.)
[If cake browns too quickly, you can place a tented piece of aluminum foil over it to slow the browning while allowing the cake to finish cooking. Remember that when using a tube pan, the top of the cake that you see in the pan will be the base of the cake once the cake is removed from the pan, so if it is a little dark, it usually doesn’t matter as the darker parts generally have delicious flavors all their own.]
