Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

1 1/2 c Vegetable oil 1/2 ts Salt
2 c Granulated sugar 1 c Whole-wheat flour, sifted
3 Eggs 4 c Shelled walnuts, coarsely
2 c Unbleached all-purpose -chopped
-flour, sifted 1 1/4 c Coarse chunks of peeled and
1/8 ts Ground cloves -cored apples
1 1/4 ts Ground cinnamon 3 tb Applejack
1/4 ts Ground mace Apple Cider Glaze (see
1 ts Baking soda -recipe)

---------------------APPLE CIDER GLAZE--------------------------
4 tb Sweet butter 4 tb Sweet cider
2 tb Brown sugar 2 tb Fresh orange juice
6 tb Granulated sugar 2 tb Heavy cream
3 tb Applejack or apple brandy Preheat oven to 325F.

In a large bowl, beat vegetable oil and sugar until thick and opaque.
Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Sift
together flour, cloves, cinnamon, mace, baking soda and salt, then
stir in whole-wheat flour. Add to oil and egg mixture and mix until
well blended. Add walnuts, apple chunks and applejack all at once and
stir batter until pieces are evenly distributed.

Pour batter into a greased 10-inch round cake pan. Bake for 1 hour
and 15 minutes or until cake tester inserted in center comes out
clean.

APPLE CIDER GLAZE:

Melt butter in a small saucepan and stir in both sugars. Add
remaining ingredients, stir, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat
slightly and cook for 4 minutes. Remove from heat and cool slightly.
Pour while still warm over warm cake.

Makes 1 1/2 cups glaze.

From the San Francisco Chronicle, 11/16/88.

Posted by Stephen Ceideburg

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