Hot Potato Cake

Ingredients

• 1 lb. mashed potato
• 2 oz. fat
• 2 oz. sugar
• a pinch of salt
• a little flavouring (lemon or vanilla)
• 2 eggs
• a few bread-crumbs
• syrup

Method

1. 1

   This is made with cooked potatoes, preferably baked.

2. 2

   Mix the potato, fat, sugar, the yolks of the eggs, salt, and flavouring to taste, lightly fold in the white of eggs beaten to a firm froth.

3. 3

   Line a cake tin with fat and breadcrumbs and fill with the mixture.

4. 4

   Bake for about 30 minutes and serve with syrup, or if any juice is left over from the stewed fruit, boil this up and thicken with diluted potato or corn flour to a light syrup, and use.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The victory cookery book (1918) by Peel, C. S. Mrs, page 56. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Hot Potato Cake Materials.—1 lb. mashed potato, 2 oz. fat, i 2 oz. sugar, a pinch of salt, a little flavouring © (lemon or vanilla), 2 eggs, a few bread- — crumbs, syrup

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