Recipes by Arlene

This recipe comes from Bonnie Macek, one of my mother’s best friends in Ravenna, Nebraska. The recipe is easily 60 years old if not much older.

• ½ cup butter or shortening
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• ½ cup brown sugar
• 2 beaten eggs
• ½ tsp. grated lemon rind
• 2½ cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1 cup milk
• 1 tsp. soda
• 2 cups fresh chopped apples
• ½ cup chopped pecans or walnuts
• 2 tbsp. brown sugar

Sift together white sugar, flour, baking powder and salt. dissolve soda in milk. Combine all ingredients (down to the chopped apples and except half of the milk) in mixer bowl and beat at medium speed for two minutes. Add last ½ of the milk and beat two more minutes. Add chopped apples. Pour into cake pan and sprinkle with brown sugar and nuts. Bake at 360 degrees about 30 minutes.