11. Vintage Recipes

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Here's a recipe from Mary M, from a 1959 Farm Journal's Country Cookbook:

Potato Chocolate Cake

Stay-fresh cake--a favorite at Western ranch tables

1/2 c. milk
3 squares unsweetened chocolate
1 c. shortening
1 3/4 c. sugar
1 c. hot mashed potatoes
4 eggs, separated
2 c. sifted cake flour
1 tblsp. baking powder
1/8 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla
1/4 c. sugar

 - Heat milk slowly in saucepan. Add chocolate, stir to melt, cool.
 - Cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy.
 - Combine chocolate mixture with potatoes. Add to creamed
 mixture.  Beat in egg yolks.
 - Sift together flour, baking powder and salt; stir into batter.
 Add vanilla.
 - Beat egg whites until stiff, adding the 1/4 c. sugar
 gradually.  Fold into batter.  Pour into 3 greased waxed
 paper-lined 8" layer pans.
 -Bake in moderate over (350 degrees) 30 minutes. Cool and frost
 as desired.
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