Rum cake?

(1965 April 21)

Now I must explain about your cake. It fit into the pan so nicely, my love, because it was baked in the same pan. It is an apple sauce cake in my Settlement Cook Book. It is a cake with great keeping power, and so I thot it better to send than one of the usually thot of cakes for birthdays. More fragile, etc. It was only the frosting flavored with rum. Heavens! Surely am glad it arrived [in Kentucky]in such good condition. Misgivings. But the postage!!