More Potato Cakes

Chico California 1900 – 1940’s

Potato Cakes                  

2 cups sugar, 1 cup butter, 1 cup mashed potato beat to cream, 4 eggs, 1 cup chopped walnuts, ½ cup ground chocolate, ½ cup milk, 2 cups flour, 2 tea sp. baking powder, 1 tea sp. mixed spices.  Paper in pan, bake nearly an hour in moderate oven. 

Potato Flour Cake                                 

Yolks 4 eggs beaten stiff, put in ½ cup powd. Sugar, beat together 3 or 4 min.  Add stiff whites with ½ cup powd. Sugar.  Beat all well, then add ½ cup potato flour with tea sp. baking powder.  Sift into sugar and egg, add vanilla & salt.  Bake in a moderate oven, in loaf or layers. 

Very Fine Potato Cake      

You can find potato flour in the grocery store, or from Bob’s Red Mill web site; you can also look in any specialty food store.  I have substituted potato flour for wheat flour in a recipe like these, they turned out very well. 

Santa Rosa California 1920’s – 30’s

Potato Cake               

Potato Flour Cake   (Seawell)    

5 egg Potato Cake           

INGREDIENT REFERENCES and MEASUREMENTS

I have found several references that explains the equivalents to our modern measurements.  Just a few examples are;

Gill – Pronounced Jill; equal to a quarter of a pint; or four fluid ounces which equals ½ cup. 

Lump of (something) the size of a Turkey’s egg – equals 4 ounces

Lump of (something) the size of a chicken’s egg – equals 2 ounces.

Lump of Butter the size of a walnut – equals 1 ounce. (can also be 1 rounded tablespoon)

A Victorian measurement of a wine glassful, will not be the wine glass we think of today.  They were much smaller, about ¼ cup to ½ cup.  So, when using a recipe that askes for a wine glass full be sure to use a lot less than you would think about using from today’s size of glass.

Quite a few of these recipes call for; a coffee cupful. A teacup full, and a wineglass full.

A coffee cupful = 1 cup.

A tea cupful = 1/3 cup, I have also found it to be ¾ cup.

A wine glassful = ¼ cup, ½ gill or 4 T.

A Tumbler = ½ pint or 1 cup

Oven temperatures are seldom given in the old books and recipes; most times the only say something like a slow oven or quick oven.  These are the equlivent to today’s oven temperatures;

A very slow oven equals 250 to 275 degrees.

A slow oven equals 300 to 325 degrees.

A moderate oven equals 350 to 375 degrees.

A hot or quick oven equals 375 to 400 degrees.

A very hot oven equals 400 to 450 degrees.

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