Potato Cake
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Ingredients: 2
cups
Sugar 1
cup
Butter 1
cup
Potatoes, mashed,
hot
1
cup
Pecans,
chopped
1/2
cup
Milk,
sweet
2
cups
Flour 4
Egg,
well beaten
5
teaspoons
Chocolate,
melted
1
teaspoon
Cloves 1
teaspoon
Cinnamon 1
teaspoon
Nutmeg 4
teaspoons
Baking powder
Directions:
Cream well the butter and sugar. Add the other ingredients, leaving the eggs and baking powder till the last. Moisten the baking powder with a tablespoon of water the fold it and the eggs in lightly. Bake in layer pans about 40 minutes [in a 350 F. oven, until a toothpick tests clean]. For filling, use cooked icing with a dozen marshmallows beaten in while the icing is hot. If you desire, you may add nuts and raisins to the icing.
Ola Cunningham Comanche Study Club cookbook Comanche, TX, 1927
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