Applesauce Cake

1 cup sugar
1/2 cup shortening
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon cloves
1/4 to 1/2C raisins (to taste)
1 teaspoon soda
1/4 cup warm water
1 cup unsweetened applesauce
1 1/2 cup flour

Dissolve baking soda in warm water.  Beat thoroughly all ingredients
together, then add flour.  Stir in raisins. Bake at 350 for 45 minutes.
Sprinkle with icing sugar when cool, or ice with vanilla butter cream icing or eat plain.

This recipe was made by my grandmother, my mother and myself so it is at least now the 4th generation of eating this delicious cake.