MORAVIAN SUGAR CAKE

From The Houston Chronicle

1/2 c solid vegetable shortening
1/2 c sugar
1/2 c mashed potatoes, reserve cooking water -- (1 lg or 2 sm)
2 eggs -- beaten
2 pkg active dry yeast
3/4 c potato water -- (105-110°F)
4 scant cups sifted all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp salt
butter
brown sugar and cinnamon

Using a large bowl, add shortening and sugar to hot mashed potatoes. Add beaten eggs. Dissolve yeast in lukewarm potato water and add sifted flour and salt. Combine potato and yeast mixture (like a bread dough) and let rise in a covered bowl until doubled in bulk, 20-30 min @ 80°F. Pat out in greased pans (one 11x7x2" plus one 8" square, or 3 square pans) to 1/2" thick. Let rise 1 hr. Make indentations in dough and fill holes with plenty of butter. Sprinkle very generously with brown sugar and cinnamon. Bake @ 375°F 20 min.

NOTES : "This Moravian recipe was a This is a Favorite contest winner in 1972 for Mrs. James E. Strickland, who says it freezes well. She got the recipe from a friend who got it from a Mrs. Mills, granddaughter of a man who wrote a Moravian hymn. The recipe is a specialty of the Moravian people in Old Salem, she said."


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