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Fastnacht Potato Cake

Fastnacht Potato Cake Servings: 1 Ingredients: • 2 Potato 2 • Egg • 1 cup Sugar • 1 tsp Salt • 1/4 tsp Nutmeg • 1/2 cup Lard • *or: • 1/2 cup Other shortening • 1 cup Yeast • *dissolved in just: • 1/2 cup Water, incre...

Fastnacht Potato Cake

Servings: 1

Ingredients:
• 2 Potato 2
• Egg
• 1 cup Sugar
• 1 tsp Salt
• 1/4 tsp Nutmeg
• 1/2 cup Lard
• *or:
• 1/2 cup Other shortening
• 1 cup Yeast
• *dissolved in just:
• 1/2 cup Water, incredibly hot
• Flour

Instructions:
1. Boil the pared potatoes in just plenty of water to include them. Drain off the potato water and preserve.
2. Mash the potatoes and fight lightly. Evaluate the potato water and add even further water, if demanded, to create 1 1/2 pints.
3. Mix with the unwind of the components, getting adequate flour to deliver a pretty rigid batter. Cover and allow for add in just a hot House until eventually early morning.
4. Knead in just the early morning, including as considerably flour as is important. Allow add all over again.
5. Spread on effectively-greased tins and While mild (over 1-1/4 several hours) brush melted butter already mentioned coolest.
6. Strew with "rivels" generated via combining 1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 cup flour, and 2 Tbsp butter. Resource: Pennsylvania Dutch Cook E book - Wonderful Previous Recipes, Culinary Artsp Drive, 1936.