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   Here's a recipe from Mary M, from a 1959 Farm Journal's Country Cookbook:   
      
   Potato Chocolate Cake   
      
   Stay-fresh cake--a favorite at Western ranch tables   
      
   1/2 c. milk   
   3 squares unsweetened chocolate   
   1 c. shortening   
   1 3/4 c. sugar   
   1 c. hot mashed potatoes   
   4 eggs, separated   
   2 c. sifted cake flour   
   1 tblsp. baking powder   
   1/8 tsp. salt   
   1 tsp. vanilla   
   1/4 c. sugar   
      
    - Heat milk slowly in saucepan. Add chocolate, stir to melt, cool.   
    - Cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy.   
    - Combine chocolate mixture with potatoes. Add to creamed   
    mixture.  Beat in egg yolks.   
    - Sift together flour, baking powder and salt; stir into batter.   
    Add vanilla.   
    - Beat egg whites until stiff, adding the 1/4 c. sugar   
    gradually.  Fold into batter.  Pour into 3 greased waxed   
    paper-lined 8" layer pans.   
    -Bake in moderate over (350 degrees) 30 minutes. Cool and frost   
    as desired.   
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