Applesauce Cake

I figure I would start with the first recipe I learned, and there are many joke about

2c Applesauce

1t soda

Mix and set aside

1c Sugar

1c Shortening

1c Brown Sugar

Cream then add

2 Eggs

Cream then add applesauce mix and mix until well blended

2c Flour

2t Cinnamon

2t Nutmeg

1 1/2t Cloves

Sift than add to wet mix

Put in a greased and flours pan

Bake at 350 for an hour to an hour and fifteen

Now for the jokes and thoughts

This was my dads favourite growing up.  My mom thought to make it for him.  She tried many different recipes, his response was always a version of 'it is good, but it is not applesauce cake'.  She finally asked his mom for her recipe.  Now you need to know my dads mother was a great baker, and she had recipes, but her version of recipes are written in what I call a dialect for old school cooks.  My mom had to translate "ripe good hand full" into cups.  It is a family favourite, and any time it is made we joke about whose hand should be used to measure the raisins.

The recipe calls for shortening, but my mom uses unsalted butter, as do I

My mom usually uses less cloves, and nutmeg, the cloves because she does not like their overpowering nature, and the nutmeg because we use fresh, and a little fresh goes along way;  on the other hand I cut nothing, and even up the cloves, but that is because cloves are proven to help with pain, and as long as it does not ruin the flavour of the cake I do not see why I cannot get an extra boost from a splurge of cake