Dried Apple Cake

2 cups dried apples, chopped fine and soaked in water overnight.
Then cook in 1 cup molasses until soft.
Add 1 cup each of butter, sugar, sour milk, 2 tsp. soda, 1 tsp. each of cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and lemon extract, flour enough to make stiff, 1 cup raisins may be added.
Mix all together and bake in slow oven for 1 hour.

* This recipe is a community based collection of recipes from Salanis area. Apples need to be chopped very finely.
 

Submitted by Fred Smoot