Main Ingredients:

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Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

1/2 c Potato, mashed
1/2 c Potato water
1/2 c Butter and other shortening,
1/2 c Sugar
3 1/2 c Flour
1 c Yeast
1 x *dissolved in:
1/2 c Water, lukewarm
2 ea Egg, well beaten
1/2 c Sugar
1 1/2 c Flour
1 x *topping:
1 c Flour
1/2 c Sugar
1 ea Egg yolk, well beaten

Mix together the mashed potatoes, potato water, shortening and sugar.
Add to this about 3 1/2 cups flour and the dissolved yeast. Set this
dough aside to rise in a warm place over night. The following morning
add the eggs, 1/2 cup sugar and 1 1/2 cups flour. Allow this mixture
to stand in a warm place until light. Then roll out pieces 6 by 8 by
1 inch thick and place in greased oblong pans. When cakes are ready
to be put into the oven, brush top of cake with melted butter. Strew
over the tops of the cakes the topping mixture. This mixture should
be rubbed through a coarse sieve. Bake at 400-F about 20 minutes.
Source: Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book - Fine Old Recipes, Culinary
Arts Press, 1936.

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