Recipe: Old Fashioned Fried Cakes (using mashed potatoes and sour milk)

OLD FASHIONED FRIED CAKES

2 eggs
1 cup sugar
3 Tbsp. melted shortening
1 cup sour milk
1 cup mashed potatoes
4 cups flour (see note*)
1 tsp. ground nutmeg
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
Fat (for deep frying)

Beat eggs; add sugar, shortening, sour milk and potatoes; set aside.

Mix the rest of the ingredients and add to the potato mixture.

Roll, cut and fry in deep fat.

*Handwritten note in cookbook: Use 3 cups flour and use the extra cup for flouring the board - usually it will take 1/2 cup.

Lena Rickard

From: Recipelink.com
Source: Museum Morsels from the Little Red Schoolhouse Compiled by Janet G. Denton for the Sterling Historical Society, 1980