Potato Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• two cupfuls of sugar
• two-thirds cup butter
• yolks of four eggs
• a half cupful of sweet milk
• a teaspoonful of soda
• one cup mashed potato
• two cups of flour
• four squares of chocolate melted
• one cup chopped walnuts
• a teaspoonful of vanilla
• the stiffly beaten whites of four eggs

Method

1. 1

   Cream sugar and butter, add yolks, milk, soda, potato, flour, chocolate, walnuts, and fold in egg whites.

2. 2

   Bake in a large loaf or layers.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Standard Paper-Bag Cookery (1912) by Emma Paddock Telford, page 50. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Potato Chocolate Cake.— To two cupfuls of sugar and two-thirds cup butter beaten to a cream, add yolks of four eggs beaten until lemon colored and light and a half cupful of sweet milk. Next add a teaspoonful of soda dis- solved in two tablespoonfuls of hot water, one cup mash- ed potato, two cups of flour, and four squares of chocolate melted, one cup chopped walnuts, a teaspoonful of van- illa. Lastly fold in the stiffly beaten whites of four eggs. This may be baked either in a large loaf or in layers in a paper bag. Potato Caramel Cake. — Beat to a ceram two-thirds cup of butter and two cups of sugar, add the yolks of four eggs beaten until light and mix with a half cup of sweet milk and one cup mashed potato

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