Applesauce Bar Cookies comes from the Cookies divider in My Mom’s Recipe Box. The original is a typewritten recipe card with compact ingredient lines, directions, a yield, and a brief calorie and exchange notation.
Original Recipe Card
Ingredients
- 1 3/4 cup flour or cake flour
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/4 cup margarine
- 1/2 cup applesauce
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp. allspice
- 1/8 tsp. cloves
- 1 egg
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup raisins
Directions
Mix together flour, soda, salt, and spices. Cream margarine;beat in sugar;add egg;beat until light&fluffy. Add raisins, applesauce. Mix well. Bake at 375 deg. for 30 mins. Let cool Place in greased pan.
Yield
Makes 24 squares
Nutrition Information From the Original
1 bar=80 calories
1 bread, 1/2 fat exchange
Preservation Notes
This recipe was typed on an aged recipe card. The typewritten title, compact spacing, original punctuation, and light wear along the card’s edges are preserved in the scan.
Notes From the Original
The direction “Place in greased pan.” appears after the baking and cooling instructions on the original card. It remains in that position here rather than being silently reordered. The original spacing and wording “light&fluffy” are also preserved.
About My Mom’s Recipe Box
This recipe is part of My Mom’s Recipe Box, an ongoing preservation project dedicated to my late mother’s original recipe collection. Every effort is made to preserve the original wording, organization, handwritten notes, typewritten cards, magazine clippings, corrections, and other details exactly as they appeared in her recipe box. When clarification is helpful, it is provided separately so the original recipe remains preserved.
