Title: Potato devil's food cake
 Categories: Cakes, 1941
      Yield: 6 servings
 
    1/4 c  Shortening
  2 1/4    Squares unsweetened
           -chocolate
      1    Egg
      6 tb Evaporated milk
      2 ts Baking powder
      1 ts Vanilla
      1 c  Sugar
    1/2 c  Mashed potatoes
    1/4 ts Salt
  1 1/4 c  Flour
    1/2 c  Chopped nuts
 
  Cream shortening.  Add sugar, chocolate, which has been melted over
  hot water, and mashed potatoes.  Beat thoroughly.  Add egg yolk and
  milk. Sift flour, measure, and sift with baking powder and salt. Beat
  thoroughly. Add nuts and flavoring.  Fold in stiffly beaten egg
  white. Pour into well-oiled layer cake pans. Bake in moderate oven
  (375 F) 25-30 minutes. Mrs. H.E. Chrisman, Scottsbluff, NE.