Mystery Apple Sauce Cake Recipe - Old Cookbook Show

[@magpielala]

Hello, Friends - this is my family's cookbook. The Sunday Old Cookbook shows are my favorite feature of the channel, I am honored to be a part of it. Glen, I'm so pleased that you chose to make the mystery recipe and that it turned out so well. I missed finding it when I was preparing to send the books to you, I'm glad you published it so I can make it sometime! The book was most likely bought by my great-grandmother, Edith. The handwriting is definitely my great aunt Hope's. I imagine she was talking with someone on the phone and wrote down a suggested recipe to try. I'm fairly sure she would have made this in a 6x9 cake pan or a loaf pan, though a bundt pan with a glaze seems like a good option. Hope was very practical about her baking, she would have thought an icing would be "too much sugar" or some such nonsense. She only ever made her oft-requested Sugar Cream pie in a 6" pie tin because "nobody needs that much Sugar Cream pie". Helen Hope Austin (1920-2012) was the cook of her family, and famous in town for her baking. Every summer she would make my favorite zucchini bread when I visited. She collected recipes for many years, I believe she thought of writing cookbooks of her own. I have tons of recipe cards she wrote or typed, some with notes as to her ideas of how to alter the recipe. I'm still imagining what to do with all the cards, for now I'm just sharing fun tidbits online. You can follow @aunt_hopes_kitchen on Instagram to see more. Enjoy! Lara

[@TizianaTina]

Thank-you so much for sharing!

[@asilverfoxintasmania9940]

Thank you for sharing all those details!

[@sanachanto]

This is so wonderful! Thank you for sharing your aunt's recipes with the world, and letting us know a little bit more about her.

[@judithcornelius778]

As I listened to this great recipe-- how about hard sauce?

[@keeperofthegood]

Thank you for keeping the history and adding context to that history!

[@budbear2234]

Purest thing every sunday

[@hiddentruth1982]

I went through the kitchen for a cake with no name .

[@gardengatesopen]

It felt good to get out of the 🌧 rain

[@hiddentruth1982]

@@gardengatesopen I was wondering if anyone would get that lol

[@gardengatesopen]

@@hiddentruth1982 ha! It was a pretty good one!!! 🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎 At 1st I was wondering why I automatically read it as a song, it didn't take long to figure it out, then you gave me a BIG smile!! 😁 And a good song in my head! Thanks for that ❤

[@gardengatesopen]

@@Pygar2 noooo... We were quoting song lyrics. The cake is for after the walk thru the desert. ♡

[@ClockworkAvatar]

@@gardengatesopen so was pygar. specifically Macarthur Park

[@Timcat35]

I recognized that right away. It's been a family favorite since I was a kid in the 60's. We've always called it applesauce cake, but we bake it in a bundt pan. It was passed down from my German great grandmother. The recipe is spot on the same, though we've never included dates. Might have to try those. Thanks Glen!

[@shawno8253]

Everytime I come down to read the comments it never fails to amaze me how diverse this community is, I really love it

[@awesomesauce7535]

That was fun, mystery cake!

[@nickbriggs9620]

This kind of think this may be meant to be in a loaf pan? The recipe sounds familiar to a apple bread my grandma used to make... but who knows? Long live the old cookbook show! It’s my favorite!

[@lenalyles2712]

Had my grandmother's cookbook and gave it to my neice when we downsized. It had quite a few hand written recipes to include the one you just made. She called it applesauce cake and used a simple glaze on it. She used a loaf pan.

[@zukacs]

does the sauce make it moist?

[@M-Soares]

Watching Glen's videos is always so pleasant! Thank you Glen and Jules for such feel good content!

[@ajohnson153]

I feel like a collab between Glen and Max Miller from Tasting History would be an amazing thing to see. I love these what I like to call 'Food forensics' videos.

[@magpielala]

I second this! Big fan of Max as well.

[@helenkelly272]

Wow, that's a great challenge for you! People can send you a list of ingredients only (possibly from a family recipe) and see what you create! And that cake does look yummy!

[@dawng.8836]

I love watching the old cookbook show before church.

[@richardmassoth8237]

For the fan, it's probably a sleeve-based bearing fan (they're cheaper), and you want a ball-bearing fan for quietness. These fans come in a few standard size and can be swapped out for the same size and voltage rating by a service man or possibly a computer tech. So, you might be able to "upgrade" the fan instead of trial-and-error searching for a suitable convection oven. For this cake, my grandmother made something similar with pecans and raisins. She called it an "applesauce-raisin cake". I think that she added allspice. The recipe came from the early 1920s or late 1910s. Just after she got married before the Great War.

[@kooyawn00]

A mystery recipe - how fun!

[@colleenmayes9248]

The cake looks delicious but I have to admit, I'm kinda obsessed with the meat aging project you've got going. I'm really excited to see the results of that!

[@Ottawa411]

The deli meats seem really interesting too.

[@TheSanjay1234567890]

Wow that looks too good. Thanks for the good vibes

[@renaissancewomanfarm9175]

Old cookbook show is my favorite!! Love that you jumped in on the mystery recipe. I have some home made applesauce and a bundt pan that are dying to try this!

[@valerietaylor1321]

This will be wonderful for Christmas. I'll bake it today, freeze it and serve on Christmas Eve. Thanks Glen.

[@nancylindsay4255]

Leave some out for Santa!

[@lyndaofiowa718]

Argh, this is our family's Christmas fruit cake but we add 2 tbsp of cocoa powder, cloves, ginger and candied citrus peel. (I made my own candied peel this year). Such a hoot to see what I know has been a 3+ generation family favorite in some one else's cook book. Btw we have used bread tins or angel food cake pans to cook this.

[@Trainwheel_Time]

"I'm thinken its a cake" is a great place to start!! lol

[@Chudhole]

It actually looks like it would be a good thanksgiving or Christmas cake

[@gailbenjamin3274]

Wow! Even the beautiful handwritten cursive is amazing. Reminds me of my grandmothers writing. She was a schoolteacher in Alberta from the 1930’s into the 1970’s.

[@magpielala]

Yes, Gail! That’s my great aunt’s handwriting, she loved 1920-2012. The recipe was probably written in the 40’s or early 50’s by the neatness and clarity of her writing (and pencil!). Later notes and cards are less legible but still lovely.

[@williamhart4896]

That looks like my grandmother's applesauce cake a family favorite for many years

[@liamkehoe5957]

It looks like manor house cake to me. This channel is a highlight of my life right now. Thank you Glen and Jules for all that you do!

[@thisisdarren7572]

This is how my Grandmother did her recipes just a name of it at the top, then a list of ingredients with no measurements or cooking temps or times. I love experimenting with them.

[@RoxanneRichardson]

So interesting to see a Delineator cookbook! I collect vintage and antique knitting manuals, so I have a few of the Butterick knitting publications from the 1890s, and have looked through many issues of the monthly Delineator magazine, as well. I had assumed all of their books were textile-related.

[@cindymichaud7111]

I went to the shelf and sure enough, I have that cookbook but there is no recipe written in the back! Lol! Great fun, thanks!

[@cindymichaud7111]

@@bbymks5 New Delineator Recipes is the name of the cook book

[@lenom1289]

Yes! Butterick patterns. Thanks Glenn for bringing back that memory. Love your show, keep up the good work!

[@karenwaters3497]

Due to the time difference (GMT) I always think of this as Sunday afternoon in 'The Old Cookbook Show'. I am tempted to go and bake this now to have at teatime. Thank you Glen & Julie for these wonderful videos - they are my "whatever brings you joy", especially in these trying times. 😊👏

[@bradmcmahon3156]

Here, at GMT+11, it's my Monday morning cooking show, as it is published very late Sunday night my time.

[@lynnie57]

This recipe is just like the recipe I wrote down from an elderly aunt back in 1977. She made it to please her 90 year old brother who always loved it. We ate it on her porch with lemonade.

[@dlbstl]

I would have added 1/4 teaspoon of nutmeg. And up to the cinnamon to 1/2 teaspoon. It looks great and I love that you met the challenge of no method and no name.

[@LooseChange7325]

Happy Sunday! Awesome choice, mystery cake!

[@tracephoto1823]

My mother made almost this exact recipe all growing up. She also called it an apple sauce cake. One of my favs especially right out of the oven.

[@talldave1000]

You know for sure its old because the recipe was written in cursive and no-one knows how to do that these days. ;-) Great job on the cake. Looks delicious. I will have to try that one.

[@joantrotter3005]

I had someone comment on my "beautiful" old cursive awhile back! I guess it is compared to printing? I think it's terrible to not teach it, but so many under what, 30 maybe, just don't know it 😞.

[@talldave1000]

@@joantrotter3005 - exactly! My Grandfather was Italian and his penmanship was a thing of beauty. Mine is not bad but very basic

[@bradmcmahon3156]

@@joantrotter3005 This is becoming more and more common. Modern cursive in many areas is just joined lower case block printing. At work, a colleague in her mid-20s gave me a hand written document she couldn't read. It was beautifully written cursive. Not only was she astounded I could read it at normal reading speed but also that I could also write like that. I was taught in the late 1970s. She would have difficulty with the recipe as written in the back of the cookbook - but perhaps slowly work it out.

[@jst7714]

Shopping for appliances has never been the same since the fall of Sears...

[@Chudhole]

Back in the day Sears appliance salesmen were actual professionals. Not some kid working at Home Depot. A friend of mines dad actually retired from Sears as an appliance salesperson. This was of course many moons ago.

[@ajohnson153]

I know, it's terrible you have to wade through countless reviews online to find one that isn't basically just a paid advertisement for the product that you're looking at. Best you can do these days is find a local appliance repair shop and talk to them. They'll know what brands they have to fix most often and which ones have the biggest issues.

[@TheScratchingKiwi]

Shopping for appliances with covid is... interesting. In New Zealand, you may have to wait many months for a fridge... oven... any whiteware.

[@ideoformsun5806]

Love that shiny candy apple red mixer!

[@LaunceBugbee]

I rarely pick up and just say screw it, I’m making this... well, that’s what I’m doing tonight!! Thank you for such a lovely channel.

[@LindaM2005]

My mother made applesauce cakes in bulk as Christmas gifts for decades, using the applesauce we jarred during the previous fall. She didn't use dates, only raisins and chopped walnuts, and used brown sugar instead of white sugar. She baked it in a 9x5 loaf pan. I can still remember seeing them lined up in rows on the table, and the smell of the spices through the house.

[@ABWSKITCHEN]

Thank you for sharing your experience and ideas, definitely we will make it soon.

[@Fc-hc7oj]

Hey Glen greetings from Argentina. Here in Patagonia welsh inmigrants community do a black cake simmilar to this one, at least in the way it looks. We call it "torta negra galesa" or "welsh black cake". The high brown/black sugar content and also honey and maybe the low humidity of the cake allowed them to take it to long trips for weeks or months. It has dry fruits, walnuts and a good amount of butter.

[@sofieonecrow]

My mother used to make a similar cake (minus the dates) using a recipe titled Applesauce-Raisin Cake. While the cake was still warm she poured over it a thin glaze made of powdered sugar and hot water. The glaze added to the moisture in the cake and crystalized on the surface, making a nice crunchy finish. The recipe was handed down from her great-grandmother.

[@ErokLobotomist]

Love your videos. It's great to see Canadian content in a sea of Americans. Cheers from BC!!

[@torlop]

Thank you, Glen. Mystery solved about why our oven just randomly comes on after we bake in it. You're correct it is very annoying and we are saving up our pennies to pension it off.

[@stellaz2595]

My mother often made applesauce cake. We ate it either plain or with "penuche" (brown sugar) frosting. As a bonus, the applesauce was homemade from our own apple trees.

[@nlyb3167]

My mother-in-law makes this every year for Christmas in miniature loaf pans and gives them as gifts. She calls it Applesauce Loaf.

[@knitterscheidt]

very familiar recipe, one change I like instead of apple sauce use an 8oz bag of dried apple chips, break them up into small pieces and simmer with 1 cup apple cider for about 15-20 minutes until they're reconstituted, this gives you very tangy, chewy bites of apples in the cake

[@tracegates8841]

Love this recommendation of dried apple chips.

[@DKenUCLA]

I made this with dates and dried apricots, and it was so delicious. Only thing I changed was 1 tsp of cinnamon and a little nutmeg.

[@garlicgirl3149]

I love your adventures with food. I have fun.😊

[@sandrasobie1960]

My grannie called this Apple Sauce cake. She made it with Crisco instead of butter and would hydrate the raisins and then flour them, which would keep them from going to the bottom of the cake.

[@Walt1119]

This reminds me of my favorite cake (I'm not really a cake person), Mom used to make one like this, fantastic taste, simple icing on top. It was dense as a brick! but I loved it!!!! Thanks so much for sharing with us!! Love your channel, Merry Christmas to you both!!! Walt

[@pennywv8636]

Very similar to the applesauce cake recipe that has been around for generations in my family. Ours includes allspice, baking powder and molasses, no dates, just raisins. My favorite cake. I converted the basic recipe to a fruitcake adding dried cherries, orange peel and lemon peel and I soak the fruits in rum for several weeks first. Christmas time favorite.

[@hotlavatube]

Mmm, that sounds good. Reminds me of one of my favorite shredded apple spice cakes.

[@starwindangel]

My mom used to make this cake for my Dad’s birthday. It was his favorite. I still make it today for my family.

[@heidiedelman6840]

I do love a good mystery!

[@mygreenfroggy]

This sounds similar to something my mom made with crabapplesauce when I was a kid, in the 60's. Loved the flavor of that cake and this one sounds very good! Will have to try it with Christmas fruits.

[@biertie]

so moist. very moist indeed.

[@phoebegodsmark56]

From what I know of the delineator magazines had a load of advertisements for things like shoes and clothing in it and then pattern information about what sizes they had(because in that time the size you bought was the size you got rather than multi sized patterns).

[@mrjason9382]

Thanks for shareing love watching the video very wholesome .

[@anthonydolio8118]

Yum. That really does look good.

[@annsidbrant7616]

Another spice cake with dried fruits, it sounds very much like a variation of the cakes that English-speaking countries used to make for Christmas. For me, give me a chocolate cake any day!

[@murlthomas2243]

I enjoy getting up on Sundays, even knowing I have to go to work. I love this show!

[@grahamrankin4725]

Lovely

[@notold37]

Wow what a great looking cake, thank you for the recipe Glen and Julie, and on a totally unrelated subject, Julie you look great today, stay safe guys 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🦘🦘🦘🦘

[@jb6050]

Hi Glen & Friends.... whishing you all a Holly Christmas and Happy New Year!

[@nettie8376]

I have watched many of your videos and use some of your recipes but i am not one for comment, but this recipe rang a bell. It is exactly the same as a family recipe I have except for mine uses demerara sugar and a bit more sprinkled on top for a crunch, it had walnuts or hazel depending on what my mother had. Sometimes eaten warm with custard. I only know it from hand written notes along with a cut and come again cake , both from my Great Grandmother on my mothers side who was born in the 1850.s Pembrokeshire Wales.

[@rabidsamfan]

What is a "cut and come again" cake?

[@nettie8376]

@@rabidsamfan a fruit cake you cant wait too have another slice, keeps well( improves over a few days if it lasts) good for visitors :)

[@rabidsamfan]

@@nettie8376 ooh, sounds tasty!

[@sheilaregan5382]

Want to try this ... like old time recipes .

[@stitchknit72]

Applesauce cake with Penuche frosting was a family favorite. Mine came from 1961 Betty Crocker cookbook.

[@crawdaddct]

Dang this cake is good and sweet. I even made it with fresh organic apple sauce, no sugar added.

[@peshgirl]

You say no icing, but in my family that kind of cake screams for a caramel icing.

[@JoanOH]

Reminds me of a Tomato Soup Cake my grandmother used to make. Yum!

[@kiltymacbagpipe]

Nut meats... gotta go google that.... it’s the inside of a nut.

[@BrLambert]

I looks like a good cake, I could tell that before you cut it.

[@walterco7701]

I'm always writing recipes on sticky notes or whatever paper I can find. The problem? For some reason I don't write down what the recipe IS. And every time I find one of those sticky notes I chastise myself to stop doing that. Yet, I don't! I found yesterday what looks to be a small batch ginger chocolate molasses cookie, will have to make to see. And I also hear you on the noise. My last work PC was so loud I actually got off balance from the noise. IT had no sympathy, so I've had to live with it. Finally got a new computer last week and it's blissfully quiet. Ahhh, relief.

[@sandihj]

I recall this cake showing up at family picnics in the 1950s in North Iowa. I’m guessing it was brought by either my great-aunt Bertha or my great-aunt Esther, and they used walnuts from the walnut trees on their farms.

[@MaShcode]

I've been through the oven On a cake with no name - Neil Young

[@ketocanuckleheads4501]

So good

[@joelmerrill]

One of the other cooking channels I watch has an eye level oven with French doors. When you open one door, the other automatically opens. It looks a lot better than reaching over a door.

[@johnnysobie2775]

My grand mother made this exact recipe.. It was called Hobo Bread! She saved 16 oz tin cans and baked it in side them

[@emilybilbow5304]

My gram always had a cake on hand... and cookies in a jar... most had a simple base recipe and then you could vary ingredients based on what was available... if no applesauce maybe grate an apple or use mashed bananas or pumpkin...

[@NoZenith]

I've been waiting for you to have a beater blade in one of these videos :-) that's my next kitchen purchase

[@janicev.9671]

You are so speaking to me Glenn about forgetting an ingredient in a recipe that you are doing from memory. Always tend to forget butter in my Grandpa bread receipt and in the puff pancake recipe.

[@promenadeable]

yum

[@barbarakhardin3509]

Applesauce can replace sugar in a recipe for diabetics.

[@nancylindsay4255]

Applesauce is often substituted for all or some of the fat in baked goods, too.

[@lordhypnos8360]

Probably a good cake to use up some of this apple butter I have.

[@browndog9402]

MMMM that cake would be amazing with custard over it

[@SmallWonda]

Oh my kind of cake - many thanks for sharing this and baking it for us. I think I might try it as a tea cake in a round & deeper pan & decorate with pecans - actually cherries would be great instead of dates, too. And I bet it keeps well, although wouldn't last that long! Merry Christmas Everyone - hope it will be wonderfully delicious!! 🙏🎅🎇🦘🐾🎉

[@alinayossimouse]

This cake looks excellent. I'll make this for me and my housemates soon

[@supercompooper]

Glen knows where the wild things are :)

[@Kinkajou1015]

I honestly had never heard the fan noise before. That's unfortunate that it has such a drawback. I was expecting you to say you were going to replace the fan with something that could cool better (larger diameter fan wouldn't need to spin as fast to move as much air), but no you're replacing the entire oven? I hope you can get a refund for that one, or it can go to a good home.

[@douglascampbell9809]

Or just have the fan replaced with a good computer fan. Most of those are designed to be as quiet as possible.

[@Kinkajou1015]

@@douglascampbell9809 I was actually thinking a Noctua, so yeah. I expect the fan it has to be like a 40mm fan and if you could squeeze in a 120mm fan like the NF-F12 PWM it could keep the electronics cooler while being quieter.

[@jeanahollings]

ha! i was going to come in and mention that i'm hard of hearing so at least one person can't hear it but apparently regularly hearing people can't hear it either :)

[@rabidsamfan]

I have never heard your stove whine, but my furnace fan used to make a noise and it turned out that tightening the restraining nut was enough to fix it.

[@junbug1029]

I can honestly say I've never had a cake emergency. That looks a lot like my Grandma's handwriting but I doubt it is.

[@kateyoung24]

That specific hand writing style was taught to young women in school. Many women over the age of 80 have the exact same hand writing! Both my grandmothers hand writing was identical ☺️

[@magpielala]

You're right, Kate! That's my great aunt's handwriting. She would have been 100 this year, but passed in 2012. :)

[@keeperofthegood]

I have cranberries, golden raisins and pumpkin seeds I had planned for a mince pie but maybe I will go another direction this year :)

[@alicerobinson1173]

Mine fell apart when I tried to get it out of the pan. Think breakfast muffins. Very tasty 😋. A heavy cake due to the moisture.

[@sennest]

😎👍👍 it is good when Glen eats the batter!!🥇🏅💣💥

[@keinname353]

My mother used to make applesauce cake very similar to this. It was always eaten with whipped cream

[@candiceens8981]

I will try it in a loaf pan for about 60 minutes at 325....probably after Christmas baking is done.

[@billinboots]

I would like to know how it turns out as a loaf. Thanks Will

[@jafirelkurd]

Perhaps you need to do a crossover episode with Mr Carlson’s lab where he builds you a circuit that adjusts the speed of the fan or something.

[@Justdocuments]

I am going to try this it looks great and can I just say I am in to my kitchen's and cooking and I love your kitchen. Love and peace from the UK at this time. ✌🤝👍🙏

[@raebragus]

Watch the tour video. The peek behind the curtain will blow your mind!

[@Justdocuments]

Now I have to see. 👍

[@shelbyjames9976]

You could always contact an over company and let them know you uses and have them provide you one and trade the cost on sponsorship messages

[@DieZeitungsente]

4:38 - it’s FAN-tastic, that‘s the issue 🤣