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Cake, Miss Finney's Apple

Source of Recipe

Astoria OR-thrift shop


Recipe Introduction

preheat oven to 325 degrees F. you need a tube pan. you make a sauce for the topping of cake. Cooking time is 1 1/2 hours for cake.

List of Ingredients

3 C flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
2 C sugar
3 eggs
1 1/4 C oil
1 T vanilla (old recipe was hard to read, possibly 1 tsp)
1/4 C orange juice
1 C grated apples
1 C chopped nuts
1 C coconut

Buttermilk sauce;
1 C sugar
1/2 C butter
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 C buttermilk


Recipe

Stir flour, baking soda and cinnamon on wax paper.
Combine sugar, eggs, oil, vanilla and juice in a large bowl.Beat until well blended, then stir in flour mixture. Mix until well blended. Fold in apples, nuts, and coconut. Spoon into a well greased and floured tube pan. Bake in a slow oven, 325 degrees F., for 1 1/2 hours. Cool on wire rack, in pan 15 minutes. Remove cake from pan and puncture top all over with a skewer. Spoon lots of buttermilk sauce over top of warm cake.

The sauce;
Combine ingredients in a sauce pan. Cook, stirring constantly over medium heat until mix comes to a boil.