Fruit Cake
I am trying to find the recipe for fruit cake like my mom made back in the early 50's when I was a child. She called it applesauce cake but it had raisins, nuts & candid fruit in it. She used dried apples that she put in water & cooked until they looked a light brown. This made a large cake in a tube pan. She would wrap the cake in a dishtowel & pour grape juice all over. These were usually made in November & put in a big blue canning kettle which was on the back porch to stay cold. The cake was a dark brown in color. As a child I wanted layer cake with a gooey icing instead of these cakes that the adults loved. Does anyone else remember these? I grew up in southern Virginia on a farm.