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Apple Cake With Lemon Sauce

2 cups flour. 1/2 teaspoon salt. 1½ teaspoon soda. 1 teaspoon cream of tartar. 3 tablespoons Cottolene. 1 egg well beaten. 7/8 cup milk. 4 tart, fine flavored apples. 3 tablespoons granulated sugar. 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon.

PROCESS: Mix and sift the dry ingredients in the order given; rub in Cottolene with tips of fingers; add beaten egg to milk and add slowly to first mixture stirring constantly, then beat until dough is smooth. Spread dough evenly in a shallow, square layer cake pan to the depth of one inch. Core, pare and cut apples in eighths, lay them in parallel rows on top of dough, pressing the sharp edge into the dough half the depth of apples. Sprinkle sugar and cinnamon over top. Bake in hot oven twenty-five to thirty minutes. Serve hot with butter as a luncheon dish, or as a dessert for dinner with Lemon Sauce. 2 teaspoons arrowroot. 1 cup sugar. 2 cups boiling water.