Mom'S Apple Stack Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

COOKIE LAYERS
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup sour milk (buttermilk)
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 tablespoons boiling water
1/2 teaspoon baking soda, dissolved in the boiling water
FILLING
1 (1 quart) jar applesauce, sweetened with the sugar and cinnamon
sugar
cinnamon

Preparation

Mix together cookie layer ingredients and add enough flour to roll out nicely.
Take a piece of dough about the size of your fist and pat it out in pie tins.
It will be thin.
Bake 2 at a time at 375 degrees about 10 minutes.
Makes about 9 pie size cookies.
Spread filling between each layer and on top of assembled cake.
Sometimes you can make 2 cakes from this recipe.
This cake improves with age after the filling has soaked into the cookie layers.
Best if eaten a day or 2 after it is made.