2 c Sugar
1 c Butter
1 c Potatoes, mashed; hot
1 c Pecans; chopped
1/2 c Milk, sweet
2 c Flour
4 Egg; well beaten
5 ts Chocolate; melted
1 ts Cloves
1 ts Cinnamon
1 ts Nutmeg
4 ts Baking powder
Cream well the butter and sugar. Add the other ingredients, leaving
the eggs and baking powder till the last. Moisten the baking powder
with a tablespoon of water the fold it and the eggs in lightly. Bake
in layer pans about 40 minutes [in a 350 F. oven, until a toothpick
tests clean]. For filling, use cooked icing with a dozen marshmallows
beaten in while the icing is hot. If you desire, you may add nuts
and raisins to the icing.
Ola Cunningham
Comanche Study Club cookbook
Comanche, TX, 1927
Yields
8 servings