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Chocolate Nut Cake

⅔ cup butter or shortening

1 teaspoon cinnamon

2 cups sugar

½ teaspoon mace

4 eggs

½ teaspoon grated nutmeg

1 cup mashed potatoes

½ teaspoon ground cloves

2 squares chocolate

1 cup chopped nut-meats

2 cups flour

½ cup milk

3½ teaspoons baking-powder

Cream the butter or shortening and one cup of sugar. In another bowl, beat the egg-yolks with the remaining cup of sugar. Combine the two mixtures. Have ready the hot mashed potatoes, which should be without lumps, add to them the melted chocolate and combine with the first mixture. Mix and sift the dry ingredients and add the nut-meats. Add to the cake mixture, alternating with the milk. Fold in the stiffly beaten whites. Bake in a loaf pan in a moderate oven (380° F.). When cool, cover with marshmallow frosting or boiled frosting. This is a large moist cake, which will keep well.