{"id":1398,"date":"2026-02-15T18:41:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recipe4thecook.com\/\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T18:41:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:41:27","slug":"apple-sauce-fruit-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/blog\/2026\/02\/15\/apple-sauce-fruit-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Sauce Fruit Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Ingredients<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>2 1\/3 C. thick well-drained applesauce<br \/>\n1 C. shortening<br \/>\n4 eggs, well beaten<br \/>\n1 C. whole-wheat flour<br \/>\n4 tsp. baking soda<br \/>\n1 C. nuts, broken<br \/>\n3 tsp. cinnamon<br \/>\n1 tsp. mace<br \/>\n1 tsp. allspice<br \/>\n1 tsp. cloves<br \/>\n2 tsp. nutmeg<br \/>\n2\/3 C. molasses<br \/>\n2 C. brown sugar<br \/>\n6 Tbsp. lemon juice<br \/>\n4 C. white flour<br \/>\n1 3\/4 tsp. salt<br \/>\n2 pounds seeded raisins<br \/>\n1\/4 pounds citron, thinly sliced<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Cooking Instructions<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Cream sugar and shortening. Add applesauce, which has been sieved to remove all  lumps, molasses, eggs, and lemon juice. Sift white flour, measure, sift with baking soda,  salt, and spices. Dredge raisins in whole wheat flour. Add white flour mixture to batter  gradually. Beat thoroughly. Add dredged raisins. Put a layer of batter into paper-lined  baking pan. Add a layer of citron plus nuts, cover with a layer of batter. Repeat, having  top layer of batter. Bake in slow oven (300-325 ) about 2 hours.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&quot;Give us this day our daily bread.&quot;  (Matthew 6:11)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cake<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/blog\/2026\/02\/15\/apple-sauce-fruit-cake\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cake"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}