Potato Cake

Ingredients

• % cup butter
• 2 cups granulated sugar
• 2 cups flour
• 1 cup hot mashed potatoes
• Yz cup sweet milk
• 4 eggs
• 1 cup grated chocolate
• 1 cup walnuts
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon cloves

Method

1. 1

   Bake one hour.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 10 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Portland Woman's Exchange Cook Book (1913) by Portland Woman's Exchange (Or.), page 74. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 teaspoon cinnamon. 14 teaspoon (scant) cloves; salt. 1 teaspoon vanilla. Bake in moderate oven. Mrs. E. F. Tucker. Imperial Cake. 1 lb. sugar. 1 lb. flour after sifting. % lb. butter. 1 lb. almonds (in shell) blanched and cut flne. 1 lb. citron. 1 lb. raisins. Rind and juice 1 lemon. 1 teaspoon nutmeg. 1 tablespoon brandy. 10 eggs, beaten separately. Cream butter and sugar, yolks of eggs, flour, whites of eggs last before the fruit; flour fruit well. Mrs. E. D. Kingsley. Euhulhuppf. lj/2 pints flour with 1 teaspoon salt. Sift 4 times. Half cake Fleischman's yeast broken in coffee cup of warm milk. 202 PORTLAND WOMAN'S EXCHANGE COOK BOOK and i teaspoon sugar; let stand until yeast raises in milk in bubbles (probably 5 lo 7 minutes), then stir into middle of flour for a little sponge. Ingredients: y^ lb. sweet butter, good cup sugar (powdered preferred) , good cup seeded raisins, Vi cup sultana raisins, dusted with flour. Beat 5 eggs into sponge one at a time. Put all together in sponge and beat about 7 minutes, the longer the better. Grease pan with lard, pour dough in pan until about 2 inches from top. If desired some halved almonds can be dusted over top. Flavored with rose or lemon extracts and dusted with cinnamon. Mrs. Alexander Kunz. Layer Cake No. 11. 3 eggs, beaten whites and yolks apart. 2 cups of sifted flour. lj/2 cups of "A" sugar (essential). 1 heaping teaspoon of Royal baking powder. Lemon rind and vanilla to taste. 54 teaspoon of ground mace may be added. 1 cup of butter. 1 cup of milk. Cream butter and sugar together; add yolks and flavoring. Beat well. Add milk, the flour which has been sifted with the baking powder, and lastly the whites of eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Bake on well greased jelly tins in a quick oven about 6 or 8 minutes. This will make 6 medium sized layers. Recommended. Miss Von Destinon. Layer Cake Aii Rhum, or Kirsch. Prepare two layers of Layer Cake No. 11. Lay one layer on a plate with the upper side down. Spread it thickly with raspberry and currant jelly, or with cider jelly (the jelly must be a little tart). Put the second layer over this. Make an icing of 1 gill of Jamaica rum, or Kirsch, with powdered sugar beaten into it until just thick enough to spread. Cover with this and set away. After )/2 an hour a second layer of icing may be added if liked. Recommended. Miss Von Destinon. CAKES 203 Imperial Cake. 1 lb. butter. 1 lb. flour. 1 lb. sugar. 2 lbs. seeded raisins. 1 lb. citron, shredded. 3 lbs. blanched almonds, cut fine. 10 eggs. 1 wineglass brandy. Mrs. M. S. Myrick. Lord Baltimore Cake. j/2 cup butter. 1 cup sugar. 8 yolks of eggs. Yi cup milk. 1% cups flour. 3 level teaspoons baking powder. Mix in order given and bake in layers. Put together with Lord Baltimore Riling. Lord Baltimore Filling: l]/2 cups sugar, Yi cup water, boiled until it forms soft ball when tried in cold water; pour on beaten whites of 2 eggs. Beat well, then add Yz cup maca- roon crumbs, Yz cup nut meats cut in pieces, one-third cup candied cherries cut fine, Yi teaspoon each vanilla and orange extract. G. L. H. Lady Baltimore Cake. 1 cup butter. 2 cups sugar. 9 eggs. Ys teaspoon salt. 3*4 cups flour. 4 teaspoons baking powder. % cup milk. 1 teaspoon vanilla or almond. Cream butter and sugar, add 8 beaten egg yolks and 1 beaten whole egg and salt. Mix and sift flour and baking 204 PORTLAND WOMAN'S EXCHANGE COOK BOOK powder, add to sugar and eggs, alternately with milk. Add beaten whites and flavoring. Bake in layers, putting Lord Baltimore filling between. Mrs. E. D. Kingsley. Loaf Cake. Yi cup butter. 1 cup sugar. 2 eggs. Yi cup milk. \Yi cups flour. XYi teaspoons baking powder. 1 teaspoon cornstarch. Yi teaspoon vanilla or lemon flavoring. Afrs. £. C. Shevlin. Maine Tea Cakes. 1 lb. flour. 14 lb. sugar. Yz lb. butter. Yolks of 4 eggs. Grated rind of 1 lemon. Mix all together, forming a paste. Roll out, cut into squares, IJ/2 or 2 inches across. Varnish squares with yolks of egg. Dip in powdered sugar. Bake on plates covered with flour. Mrs. ]. G. Gauld. Marmalade Cake. 1 cup sugar. Yi cup butter. XYi cups sifted flour. XYi level teaspoons baking powder. 2 eggs. Yi cup milk. A little salt. 1 small glass orange marmalade. Cream butter and sugar, add eggs one at a time, ana beat 5 minutes each, then other ingredients, the marmalade last. Bake in a loaf in slow oven. Mrs. S. T. Hamilton. CAKES .205 Mocha Cake. 3 eggs. 1 cup and 1 tablespoon flour. 1 teaspoon baking powder. 4 tablespoons water. 1 tablespoon Turkish essence of coffee. y^ cup sugar. Beat eggs separately. To beaten yolks add sugar, then flour sifted with baking powder; water and coffee essence. Last fold in whites beaten stiff. Bake in layers in slow oven. Filling for Mocha Cake, 1 pint of whipping cream. 2 tablespoons sugar. 2 tablespoons coffee essence. Mrs. L. H. Tarpley. One Egg Cake. Sometimes called Poor Man's Cake. 1 egg. Piece of butter size of an egg. I cup sugar. J/2 cup milk. lJ/2 cups sifted flour. J/2 teaspoon soda in milk. 1 teaspoon cream of tartar in flour. 1 teaspoon vanilla. Bake in shallow pan. This cake is inexpensive and quickly mixed and baked and is best served warm with a little butter. It is better when not too carefully mixed, and should not be beaten but just stirred thoroughly. Mrs. Philip C. Schuyler. Orange Cake. J4 cup butter. 1 cup sugar. Yi cup milk. 2 eggs. 206 PORTLAND WOMAN'S EXCHANGE COOK BOOK lJ/2 cups flour. 2J/2 level teaspoons baking powder. Yi teaspoon vanilla. Cream butter and sugar, add well beaten eggs, milk and flour sifted with baking powder. This is an excellent recipe for any layer cakes. Filling: Juice 1 orange, part of grated rind, 1 egg, 1 small cup sugar, 2 tart apples grated. Cook a few minutes, stirring all the time. Put between layers. Miss C. Glisan. Potato Gske. % cup butter. 2 cups granulated sugar. 2 cups flour. 1 cup hot mashed potatoes. Yz cup sweet milk. 4 eggs. 1 cup grated chocolate. 1 cup walnuts. 2 teaspoons baking powder

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