Cake Applesauce

Applesauce Cake

3 C unsweetened applesauce or cut down sugar to 1 ½ cups
2 C raisins, preferably golden
2 Cup walnut kernels or pecans
1 C butter or criwsco
1 C strawberry preserves
2 C sugar or less if sweetened applesauce
4 t soda
3 t cinnamon
2 t vanilla
3 t cloves. May want to substitute nutmeg for the cloves
1 ½ c drained crushed pineapple
Combine all of the above ingredients in a large pan. Cook this mixture 5 minutes over low heat. To do this, bring it to a boil, stirring constantly and start timing when boils. Boil 5 minutes over LOW, LOW heat.
Then add:
4 C–all purpose flour
3 whole egs.
Pour into a greased and floured and paper-bag lined 10" tube pan. Grease paper bag. Flour it, too.
Bake in a moderate oven (350) for 2 ½ to 3 hours. While baking, put a cake pan of water in the very bottom of the oven underneath the cake pan.