Mother Beth's Plain Applesauce Cake

This recipe is a family recipe - I'm not even sure how many of the family have it any more! I recently found it in a file folder - after swearing to my mom that I was positive I didn't have it.

Why was I positive? It wasn't in with the recipes where it "had to be" - it was in with pictures of my grandmother (that's Mimi on the left - and the credit for the recipe goes to the lovely matriarch on the right, my grandfather's mother - Margaret Elizabeth "Mother Beth" Harwood). Isn't this a lovely daughter-in-law/mother-in-law photo?

I can't wait to try this recipe for the first time myself! I'll be sure to share the details once I do.

Mother Beth’s Plain Apple Sauce Cake

1 cup shortening

2 cups sugar

3 cups applesauce

4 t soda

4 ½ cups flour

2 t cinnamon

1 t cloves

1 t nutmeg

1 c raisins

1 c chopped nuts

Method:

Combine as a butter cake [if you know what this means, you're a better baker than I]. Measure & sift flour with spices. Cream shortening and sugar. Add applesauce (with soda added). Then add flour & raisins.

Bake: ?

Personal note-no baking temps or times included on the handwritten recipe card – will need to test this.

Confetti Rice

Walmart Marketside - Butternut Squash cubes
1 container Lundberg Family Farms - California Brown Jasmine Rice - Organic


1 Cup Dry - Green Zucchini
1 cup Slivered Almonds, 0.5 cup Carrots - Raw
1 small (5-1/2" long) Broccoli - Flower clusters, raw
0.5 cup flowerets Olive Oil - Extra Virgin
2 tsp Garlic - Raw
1 clove (press through garlic press) Ginger root - Raw
1 tsp (press through garlic press)

Cook rice according to directions.

Microwave butternut squash for half of the designated time.

Sauté all ingredients except for rice in olive oil. When vegetables are nearly done, add rice and continue stirring until vegetables are completely cooked to your desired texture. I added an Italian seasoning mix, a bit of Kosher salt and a pinch of red chili flakes – feel free to season to taste.

Other optional stir-ins: Onion, Peppers, sausage chunks, etc.

Serves 8. CALORIES 160 / CARBS 25 / SAT FAT 1 / PROTEIN 5 / IRON 6 / CALCIUM 5