Applesauce Cake (Grandma Linford)

2 ½ cup applesauce
1 cup butter
2 ½ soda
2 cups sugar
1 pkg. Raisins
1 cup nuts
4 good cups flour
1 Tbsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. cloves
1 tsp. nutmeg
½ tsp. salt
gumdrops (not licorish) cut with scissors, dipped in flour

Put sauce, soda and butter on stove. When hot, remove and cool. Add other ingredients. Bake at 325º for 1 ½ hours in wax paper lined bread pans.