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Recipe for "gumdrop-cake"

NAME

     GUMDROP-CAKE - Cake with gumdrops, applesauce, raisins,  and
     coconut

INGREDIENTS (Makes 2 large loaves)

     400 g     flour
     2         eggs
     5 ml      baking soda
     400 ml    applesauce
     1 ml      salt
     5 ml      vanilla
     5 ml      cinnamon
     500 g     white raisins
     1 ml      ground cloves
     250 g     gumdrops (no black ones). Two standard bags.
     1 ml      nutmeg
     350 g     coconut (shredded). One standard bag.
     250 g     butter
               walnuts, to taste
     400 g     sugar

PROCEDURE

          (1)  Cream together butter, sugar and eggs in one bowl.
               In  another bowl, mix the dry ingredients together
               (flour, salt, soda and seasonings). Add the  flour
               mixture  to  the  butter  mixture  half at a time,
               alternating it with the applesauce. Pick  all  the
               black  gumdrops  out  and  eat  them or throw them
               away.  Add the nuts, raisins, coconut, and remain-
               ing gumdrops; blend well.
          (2)  Line 2 large loaf pans or 5 small loaf  pans  with
               wax  paper!  (Grease  won't work). Fill pans about
               2/3 full. Bake at 150 deg. C for  about  2  hours.
               Let  cool  for  about 15 minutes before you try to
               remove the loaves from the pan. They  should  just
               fall  right out when turned upside down, then peel
               off the wax paper.

RATING

     Difficulty: easy, though creaming butter and sugar without a
     food  processor is tedious.  Time: 10 minutes preparation, 2
     hours baking, 15 minutes  cooling.   Precision:  approximate
     measurement OK.

NOTES

     The smaller gumdrops work best when you go to cut the  cake.
     I  can never find small gumdrops that are not 'spice drops',
     so I buy the large ones and cut them into quarters. The cake
     also  slices  a lot better when almost entirely cool. If you
     try to cut a piece while it's still hot, it'll taste  GREAT,
     but it will crumble all over.

CONTRIBUTOR

     Jane Medefesser
     NASA-Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA
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