Mrs. Rader's Potato Cake - Mrs. Anna McMahon, S. F.

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 cups flour
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/2 cup chocolate, good measure
• 1 cup chopped walnuts
• 4 eggs
• 1 cup mashed potatoes
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon each of cloves
• 1 teaspoon each of cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon each of nutmeg

Method

1. 1

   Bake slowly.

2. 2

   Delicious.

As published

This recipe was extracted from San Rafael cook book, 1906 (1906) by Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress), page 67. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

teaspoon each cinna- mon and nutmeg. Mix in the usual manner. Use large cup for measur-^ ing. CRACKER CAKE— Mrs. Grandjean. 1 cup chopped nuts, 1 cup raisins and citron (together), 1 cup cDoco- late, V2 cup butter, 1 cup rolled crackers, 2 eggs, 1% cups sugar; -fi tablespoons milk, 1 teaspoon baking powder, mix with a little fllmr: 152 CAKES, COOKIES, DOUGHNUTS, ETC. CIDER CAKE— Mrs. Daniel Bradford. 6 cups of flour, 4 cups of sugar, 2 cups of butter, 2 cups of cider, 5 -eggs, 2 teaspoons of soda in the cider, 2 nutmegs, 2 large spoons of •cinnamon, same of cloves; cider added last. MRS. RADER'S POTATO CAKE— Mrs. Anna McMahon, S. F. 1 cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 2 cups flour, % cup milk, % cup choco- late, good measure, 1 cup chopped walnuts, 4 eggs, 1 cup mashed pota- toes, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon each of cloves

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