Raw Apple Cake (1975)

Cream:

• 2 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup shortening

Sift dry ingredients together:

• 3 cups flour
• 2 tspns baking soda
• 1 tspn each nutmeg, allspice, salt

Fold the egg-sugar mixture into the dry ingredients, while alternately adding 3/4 cup buttermilk.

Mix gently, then add 3 cup diced apples.  Bake in greased, floured 9"x15" pan at 350 degrees until golden brown, about 1-1/4 hours.  While cake is still hot, drizzle on cake glaze.

Glaze for Raw Apple Cake

Boil together for 1 minute:

• 1-1/2 cups powdered sugar
• 2 tbspns butter
• 2 tbspns water

Add 1 tspn vanilla after boiling. 

(Origin - "Church of the Good Shepherd Cookbook" by the Cookbook Committee; Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1975.  Recipe was by Norma Erne.)

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