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Applesauce Cake

  Applesauce Snacking Cake lightly dusted with powdered sugar Bake in a 9 x 9 pan until the middle is set and an inserted toothpick comes out clean Because many of the cookbooks in my historical collection are fragile I either make copies directly from the book or if they are extremely fragile I take a photo fo the page and print it.  Note that the recipe on the top is from my grandfather, Merrill Darling's , Navy Cookbook from WWII   and makes enough cake for 100 sailors. Mix all the dry ingredients together before you add them to the applesauce butter mixture We live in a town of bakeries.  My parents bought our bakery, The Solvang Bakery , when I was in 8th grade.  My freshman year of high school, my best friend was Ida FitzGerald who was dating Adam Petersen.  Adam's family owned Mortensen's bakery.  Adam, Ida and I would all go to Peter's Pastries because they had a simple Applesauce Cake that neither of the bakeries we owned made. My parents eventually bought Pe

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