Fruit Cake

2 cups dried apples or apple sauce
1 cup molasses
1 cup butter
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 eggs--add apples and molasses
1 lb. raisins
1 lb. currants
1/4 lb. candied peel mix with flour-1 cup
1 cup nuts
4 cups flour
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. cloves
1/2 tsp. allspice
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1 cup of coffee with 2 tsp. soda dissolved in coffee

Bake 1 1/2 hours in moderate oven.

-- Florence Augusta Siddons Meredith, "Grandma Meredith," 1887-1959