Potato Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• 2 cups sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 cooked potato
• 1/2 cup sweet milk
• 1 cup chopped pecans
• 1/2 cup chocolate
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon cloves
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 2 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder

Method

1. 1

   For chocolate caramel filling, mix 1/2 lb sugar; 1/4 lb grated chocolate; 1/2 cup sweet milk; butter, size of an egg.

2. 2

   Cook to a syrup stiff enough to spread.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Fredericksburg home kitchen cook book (1921), page 42. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 cup sweet milk; 2 cups sugar. WHITE FILLING: 2 cups sugar; % cup sweet milk. Cook 5 minutes, then add 1 teaspoon butter and 1 teaspoon flavoring. Take from oven and beat till creamy. Spread on cake quickly before it hardens. MRS. EMIL KOLMEIER. — 123 — Illinois Cake. 5 eggs; 2 cupfuls of sugar; 1 cupful of butter; 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder; 3 cupfuls of flour, and 1 cupful of sweet milk. Flavor with, vanilla. FILLING: 1 cupful of sugar and enough water to dissolve the sugar; put in a pan and let simmer on the stove until it candies. Then chop fine, 1 cupful of seedless raisins. Stir into the candied sugar, then add the beaten whites of 2 eggs; flavor with vanilla. MRS. AD. GOLD. Lady Baltimore Cake. 1 cup butter; 2 cups sugar; 1 cup milk; 3% cups flour; whites of 3 eggs; 1 teaspoon rose water; 3 tea- spoons baking powder. FILLING: 3 cups sugar; 1 cup boiling water; l1 cup chopped raisins; 1 cup nut meats; 5 figs, cut in thin slices, whites of 3 eggs. MRS. WM. KUENEMANN. Potato Cake. 1 cup butter ; 2 cups sugar ; 4 eggs ; 1 cooked potato ; !/o cup sweet milk; 1 cup chopped pecans; % cup chocolate; 1 teaspoon cinnamon; i/> teaspoon cloves; y2 teaspoon nutmeg; 2 cups flour; 2 teaspoons baking powder

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