Love Apple Cake Aka Tomato Soup Cake

Try topping this old favorite with cream cheese frosting. From the Western chapter of the United States Regional Cookbook, Culinary Arts Institute of Chicago, 1947.

• Ready In: 1 hr 15 mins
• Serves: 12

Ingredients

• 3⁄4 cup butter
• 1 1⁄2 cups sugar
• 3  cups cake flour (sift before measuring)
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 3  teaspoons baking powder
• 1  teaspoon baking soda
• 1  teaspoon ground cloves
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons ground nutmeg
• 1  cup  tomato soup
• 3⁄4 cup water
• 1 1⁄2 cups raisins or 1 1⁄2 cups sultanas
• 1 1⁄2 cups  nuts, chopped

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350F and grease a tube pan very well.
2. Sift dry ingredients together.
3. Cream butter and add sugar slowly.
4. Add sifted dry ingredients to creamed mixture alternately with tomato soup which has been combined with water.
5. Add raisins and nuts; pour into prepared pan and bake for an hour or until cake tests done.