Apple Cake
1 1/2 cakes FLEISCHMANN'S YEAST 1 cup milk, scalded and cooled 1 tablespoonful sugar 3 1/2 cups sifted flour 1/4 cup butter 1/2 cup sugar 2 eggs 1/4 teaspoonful salt 5 apples MAKING good Apple Cake is an art. This recipe will assure you Apple Cake in which the rich, tender apple-flavor mingles with blended sugar and cinnamon to produce a most tempting goody.
Dissolve yeast and one tablespoonful sugar in lukewarm milk, add one and one-half cups flour to make a sponge and beat until smooth. Cover and set aside in warm place until light--about three-quarters of an hour. Have sugar and butter well creamed, add to sponge. Then add eggs well beaten, rest of flour or enough to make a soft dough, and salt. Knead lightly. Place in well-greased bowl. Cover and set aside to rise--about two hours. Roll half an inch thick. Place in two well-greased, shallow pans. Brush with butter, sprinkle with sugar. Cut apples in eighths and press into dough, sharp edge downward. Sprinkle with cinnamon. Cover and let rise about one-half hour. Bake twenty minutes. Keep covered with pan for first ten minutes, in order that the apples may be thoroughly cooked.