This healthy dessert is a great American recipe throughout the year. A quick bake, it can also serve as a fun breakfast recipe in 1918 or today. From Foods That Will Win the War.
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 beaten egg
1/3 cup molasses
1/2 cup tart apple sauce
1/2 cup raisins, dates, prunes or currants (chopped)
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon allspice
1/4 teaspoon cloves
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
"Cream butter and sugar. Add egg. Alternate dry ingredients (which have been sifted together) with the liquid. Add fruit last. Beat well. Bake as loaf about 15 minutes, or in muffin pans about 25 minutes."
