Moravian Sugar Cakes

Ingredients

• One cup sugar
• one heaping cup mashed potatoes
• one cup liquid yeast
• one and a half yeast cakes
• three eggs
• three-fourths cup shortening
• pinch of salt
• fill with butter
• cover with brown sugar
• sprinkle with cinnamon

Method

1. 1

   Mix sugar and mashed potatoes, then add liquid yeast.

2. 2

   Let rise until bed time.

3. 3

   Add eggs, shortening, and salt, mix stiff, and let rise until morning.

4. 4

   Spread in pans an inch thick, make holes in top, fill with butter, cover with sugar and cinnamon, and bake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Pennsylvania German cook book (1902) by Keller, J. A. Mrs, page 11. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MORAVIAN SUGAR CAKES. VERY FlNi:. One cup sugar, one heaping cup mashed lMdato(‘s, mix them, then when C(K)1 add one cup li(|uid yeast, or (one and a half yeast cakes dissolved in a cup of water) let rise in a warm place from r»o’chK*k un¬ til bed time, then add three eggs, three- fourths cup shortening, pinch of salt, mix stiff, let raise in warm place until morn¬ ing. without working spread in pans an inch thick, let it get very light, then make holes in top with the finger and fill with butter and cmer with brown sugar or granulated, and sprinkle with cinnamon

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