Recipe: Old Fashion Apple Stack Cake (1980's)

OLD FASHION APPLE STACK CAKE

1/2 cup lard or vegetable shortening
1/2 cup sugar
1/3 cup molasses
1 egg, well beaten
1/2 cup buttermilk
3 1/2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Apple Butter or Dried Apples (for filling)

Cream sugar and lard. Add molasses,
egg and buttermilk.

Combine dry ingredients. Add to creamed mixture. Add vanilla. Refrigerate dough 20-minutes.

Roll dough into 6 or 7 circles to fit greased and floured 9-inch cake pan or heavy skillet.* The layers will be thin.

Bake each round, by itself, in a 9-inch cake pan in 350 degree F oven 10 to 12 minutes. Remove to racks to cool. Repeat until all rounds of dough are baked.

When completely cool, stack layers with either apple butter between them or dried apples which were cooked and sweetened and spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves.

Best if eaten on the day it is baked, but it will stay moist for a few days.

*The original author uses three 9-inch cake pans and bakes 6 layers in 2 batches.

Source: The Nevada Daily Mail newspaper,
Monday, January 9, 1984