Apple Pudding with Lemon Sauce

Apple Pudding

1 cup sugar
½ cup shortening
1 egg
5-6 grated apples
1¼ cup flour
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. cinnamon
¼ tsp. nutmeg
½ tsp. salt
1 cup chopped nuts

Cream sugar and shortening. Add egg and mix well. Mix dry ingredients separately and add to creamed mixture. Add apples and nuts. Mix well and place in a greased loaf pan or 9X9 square pan. Bake 350 degrees F. for 35 minutes.

Lemon Sauce for Pudding

1 cup sugar
2 tbsp. cornstarch
2 cups boiling water
4 tbsp butter
2 tsp. lemon juice
1 tbsp grated lemon rind
1 tsp. nutmeg

Mix sugar and cornstarch. Stir gradually into boiling water. Boil one minute stirring constantly. Stir in butter, lemon juice and rind and nutmeg. Serve hot over pudding.