Light Cakes

Ingredients

• One pint of milk
• Four potatoes
• One piece of butter [the size of an egg]
• A little salt
• Flour

Directions

1. Pass potatoes through a cullender with milk.
2. Mix enough flour in the potatoes to make it the thickness of muffins.
3. Seperate dough into small teacup sizes.
4. Let stand 4 hours; then add sufficient enough flour to make it as stiff as bread dough and mould it off.
5. Put dough into pans and let it remain for 3 hours.
6. Bake in oven for 20 minutes.

Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Madison Cary
Louisiana Anthology
January 2, 2024