Grandma's Apple Sauce Cake (Fruit Cake)

1/2 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 cup nuts (optional)
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon
2 cups cake flour or 1 3/4 cups bread flour
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 cup apple sauce

Cream fat and add sugar.  Cream until well mixed, beat in egg.  Add nuts and gum drops (lightly floured from recipe).  Soft and add dry ingredients, vanilla and apple sauce.  Bake 350 1 hour