Old Fashioned Dried Apple Cake

Instructions:
One cup dried apples. Soak overnight and then chop fine,
Simmer slowly two hours in a cup of molasses.
Cream one-third cup butter with one cup sugar;
add one egg one teaspoon cinnamon, one teaspoon cloves,
one-half teaspoon nutmeg,, a few grains of salt, two cups flour.
Beat this mixture thoroughly and then add the apple and molassas.