Pioneer Chocolate-potato Cake

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup butter
• 2 cups sugar
• 4 eggs, separated
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 cup plus buttermilk
• 1 tablespoon buttermilk
• 1 cup cold mashed potatoes
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Recipe

• 1 preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 cream the butter and sugar together until very fluffy and light. beat in the egg yolks, one at a time, very well.
• 3 sift together the flour, baking powder, nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon, cocoa powder, salt and baking soda.
• 4 blend together the buttermilk and potatoes.
• 5 stir the dry ingredients into the creamed mixture alternately with the buttermilk mixture. stir in the vanilla.
• 6 beat the egg whites until stiff but not dry and fold into the mixture. turn mixture into two greased eight inch square baking pans and bake forty-five minutes, or until done. yield: two cakes.
• 7 the new york times heritage cook book.