Apple Cake recipe

One of our customers recently sent this to us... we wanted to share it with all of you! Enjoy~

This recipe was recently published in Kitchen Mailbox by Marge Biancke and I believe this is the Ann Arbor paper that comes out once a week or so recently."
Q. About a hundred years ago I had a recipe for an apple cake that Millie Schembechler used to make. Can you track down that recipe?"
ANSWER: "This wonderful recipe was featured in 'Simply Good Food" which was published in 1993. The original recipe uses 1 cup of cooking oil. I have since made it with 1 cup of applesauce instead of the oil. Either way, this is a nice cake for dessert or brunch.

"MILLIE SCHEMBECHLER'S APPLE CAKE"
Ingredients: 1 cup cooking oil or substitute 1 cup applesauce. 2 cups sugar. 3 eggs, 2 1/2 cups sifted flour, 1 tsp. baking soda, 1 tsp. vanilla, 3 cups sliced cooking apples, 1 cup chopped nuts, preferably pecans.

Directions: Cream oil, sugar and eggs together. Add flour and baking soda. Stir in vanilla. Mix. Add apples and nuts to mixture.Pour batter into a tube or loaf pan. Bake at 350 degrees for an hour. Cool completely before unmolding