Categories: Cakes, Preserves, Fruits, Desserts 
      Yield: 8 servings 
  
    2/3 c  Shortening 
    1/2 ts Baking powder 
  3 1/3 c  Sugar 
      2 ts Baking soda 
      4    Eggs 
  1 1/2 ts Salt 
      2 c  Applesauce 
      1 ts Cinnamon (ground) 
  3 1/3 c  Flour 
      1 ts Cloves (ground) 
      1 c  Raisins 
    1/2 c  Pecans (chopped) 
  
  Grease 8 WIDE-MOUTH pint canning jars with melted shortening.  Use a brush 
  and avoid getting grease on the jar rims. Cream shortening and sugar. Beat 
  in eggs and applesauce.  Sift together the dry ingredients and blend them 
  into the applesauce mixture.  Add the raisins and nuts and divide the 
  batter evenly between 8 widemouth pint jars.  The jars will be more than 
  half full.  Bake open jars about 60 minutes in an oven at 325 degrees. When 
  done, quickly remove one hot jar at a time and clean its sealing edge. 
  Immediately apply and firmly tighten a two-piece wide-mouth canning lid. 
  The lid will form a vacuum seal as the jar cools.  Jars of cooled bread may 
  be stored on the pantry shelf with other canned foods or may be placed in a 
  freezer.  The bread is safe to eat as long as jars remain vacuum sealed and 
  free of mold growth. 
   
  NOTE: The lady who contributed this recipe to the magazine noted that she 
  had some of this cake that is one year old and is still delicious.  I have 
  personally made this and have several jars that are still good over 5 
  months later.  I plan to save one jar from my original batch and see how 
  long it will keep. (Nancy) 
   
  SOURCE:Countryside and Small Stock Journal, Vol. 77, #1, Jan/Feb, 1993. 
         Contributed by Elaine White 
         Typed for you by Nancy Coleman