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1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 cups applesauce
1 cup light raisins
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 teaspoon baking soda
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3 1/2 cups sifted flour
2 eggs
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 teaspoons cloves
2 teaspoons nutmeg
pinch of salt
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Sift together: Flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. Take 1/2 cup of flour mixture and stir into the nuts and raisins. Set both aside. Cream butter until whipped soft. Add sugar a little at a time until mixture is smooth. Beat eggs vigorously. Alternately stir in flour mixture and applesauce. When all mixed together add nuts and raisins then mix well. Pour batter into a well-greased cake mold. Bake in preheated oven at 350°   for one hour. Cool ten minutes, then turn out onto a cake rack. Frost with Whiskey Frosting when cake is cool.
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1/4 cup butter 1 tablespoon cream
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2 cups powdered sugar 2 tablespoon whiskey pinch of salt
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Cream butter, add sugar and salt, then cream and whiskey. Whip until smooth. Frost cake. Decorate with a sprig of holly. |
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