Aunt Hannah's Applesauce Cake

Sift together into bowl:
1 2/3 cup sifted Gold Medal Flour
1 1/3 cup sugar
¼ teaspoon Calumet Baking Powder
1-teaspoon soda
¾ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon cinnamon
¼ teaspoon cloves
Add:
1/3 cup Crisco
1/3 cup chopped nuts
2/3 cup raisins
1 cup thick unsweetened applesauce

Beat vigorously by hand or mix with electric mixer on slow to medium speed for 2 minutes. Scrape bowl frequently and ¼ to 1/3 cup unbeaten eggs (large). Continue beating for 2 minutes; scraping bowl frequently. Pur batter into prepared pan. Bake 50 to 55 minutes in moderate oven (350). Cool in pan and frost with fluffy orange icing.

*****Note: My mother thought that sister Hannah could make (sew) and cook almost anything better than most people. From looking at the ingredients, this one must have come from the either the Calumet Baking Powder can or Gold Medal Flour bag.
         Aunt Hannah Lurty was Mother's yonger sister. She was number five in the Wallace Family. Aunt Hannah was married to Uncle Gilbert and their children are Gail, Pam, and Dave. At least in my mother's opinion, Aunt Hannah was the "can do" sister. She was quite creative. She baked, sewed, and wallpapered. She fought cancer for many years. She died when she was in her fourties in the early 1960s. She did so many things. She must have been in a rush to get things done because she knew she had so little time on earth.