Apple Sauce Bread

Apple Sauce Bread

1 cup shortening

2 cups sugar

2 eggs

2 tea. vanilla

½ to 1 cup raisins

1 lb candied fruit or ½ lb (11 oz.) gumdrops, cut in half and omit the green candy.

3 ½ cup flour 

1 tea. soda dissolved in 

2 cups applesauce

½ tea. salt

1 tea cinnamon

1 tea cloves

1 tea. nutmeg

Cream shortening, sugar, eggs, and vanilla. Mix dry ingredients alternately with applesauce. Add raisins and fruit. Bake in greased loaf pan 1 hour at 350˚.