Depression Fruit Cake

1 cup raisins stewed in 2 cups cold water until only 1 cup juice remains.
1 cup sugar creamed with 2 Tbs butter
Add raisins, liquid.

Sift together:
2 c flour
pinch salt
1 tsp soda
2 tsp nutmeg

Mix all together. Bake in loaf.

Grandma wrote stories about being a newly married person during the depression. I know that they ate a lot of applesauce during those days, but not sure if this was from the same time period or not. She noted how tight things were, but how grateful she and Grandpa were with what they had.

You may remember that Grandma started her prayers with the words "Our most loving heavenly Father" or "Our most gracious heavenly Father".  I think it is fitting to think of that along with this recipe which shows the spatters and yellowing of use. We have so much food to choose from it seems.

The specific directions on this recipe do not quite make sense to me, but I have typed it here as they were typed on the card. As it turns out, there are similar recipes in the Sunmaid Raisin 100 years of recipes book. They came up with happier names for them though, like "splendid raisin cake".   But then they are doing marketing, she was living life as it came.