Baked Apple Pudding with Butter Sauce

This is one of those recipes that got lost in the shuffle.  My mom recently found it and starting making it again.  And I'm so glad she did.  It's a really moist cake that it very good in it's own right, but the butter sauce puts it over the top.  

Ingredients

1 cup shortening

2 cups sugar

2 eggs

4 cups ground or shredded apples

2 cups flour

2 t baking soda

1 t salt

2 t cinnamon

1 t nutmeg

2 t vanilla

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Grease a 9x13 pan and set aside.  Sift flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg together, set aside.  Cream sugar and shortening together.  Add eggs and shredded apples, mix well.  Mix in dry ingedients, then stir in vanilla.  Pour into greased pan and bake for 45 minutes. 

Butter Sauce Ingredients

2 cups sugar

1 cup cream or evaporated milk

1 cup butter 

1 t vanilla

Butter Sauce Instructions

Simmer until dissolved.  Serve warm over pudding.