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Flr*t Prize
Applesauce Cake
4 cups sifted flour
4 tsp. soda
IV* tsp. salt
2 tsp. cinnamon
Vi tsp. nutmeg
Vi tsp. cloves
2 tblsp. cocoa
1 c. vegetable oil
2 c. sugar
3 c. unsweetened applesauce. hot
Vi cup raisins
Vi c. chopped walnuts
Sift together first 7 ingredients. In a large mixing bowl combine vegetable oil and sugar. Beat until well blended. Stir in hot applesauce, blending thoroughly. Add dry ingredients, blending well. Stir in raisins and walnuts. Turn batter into two wellgreased and floured 9 x 9 x2 cake pans. Bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes; then reduce over temperature to 375 degrees and bake about 15 minutes longer. Remove to racks. Let stand in pans 5 minutes. Remove and cool on rack. Frost.
If you're afraid you might not have enough apple butter to make it through the winter, you might want to do as the Clyde Pullen family did and cook up 21 gallons at a time in a copper kettle.
For this large amount, Lillie Pullen used thirteen bushels of apples, peeled and cut up. She started her fire at 5:00 a.m. with 3 gallons of water to keep the apples from sticking. Apples were added throughout the morning as they cooked down, with the last apples going in around noon. About 5:00 in the evening. Lillie added her spices and sugar: she estimated about 50 pounds of sugar, 4 large boxes cinnamon. 4 boxes of allspice, and 2 boxes of cloves.
If you want to do this on a smaller scale, the method is similar. Simply convert your apples to applesauce, cook down slowly until very thick and then sweeten and season to your taste. Apple butter burns easily, so stir continuously over low heat or use the oven.
Voters Invited
To Free Picnic
Raymond R. “Andy” Guest and Virginia Governor and Mrs. John Dalton will be the guests of honor at a barbecue this Saturday sponsored by Rappahannock Citizens for Andy Guest, a bipartisan group supporting the election of Guest as delegate from the new 18th legislative district. Free food and refreshments will be served at the rain or shine picnic barbecue which, will be held at Montpelier on Route 231 six miles south of Sperryville. Country and bluegrass music will be provided by Larry LeHew and Buck Ryan’s Wildcat Band. • All registered voters in the county, regardless of political affiliation, are invited to attend the free picnic.
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