Applesauce Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 lb. butter
3 c. sugar
3 c. stewed apples (dried, fresh, unsweetened)
1 1/2 tsp. soda (stirred in apples)
4 1/2 c. flour
1 box seedless raisins (rolled in flour)
4 eggs
1 1/2 tsp. mace
1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1 1/2 tsp. cloves
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 lb. candied cherries (floured)
1/2 lb. candied pineapple (floured)
4 c. pecans (floured)

Preparation

Cream the sugar and butter.
Beat egg yolks well and add.
Add 1/2 teaspoon soda and 1 teaspoon vanilla in half the apples.
Add to mixture.
Mix the spices, nuts, fruits and raisins in all the flour.
Alternate with flour mixture and stiffly beaten egg whites. Add remaining applesauce with 1 teaspoon soda.
Put soda on top of applesauce and stir.
Add to other mixture.
Mix well.
Bake in slow (very) oven in greased and floured tube pan about 2 1/2 hours. Use 1 teaspoon cocoa for dark cake.