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Potato Candy from old PA Dutch Cookbook

List of Ingredients


1 baked potato
Vanilla
Confectioners' Sugar
Melted Chocolate

As soon as the potato is baked, warm a mixing bowl and scoop the potato from
its skin. Mash and add confectioners' sugar, stirring and adding until
mixture can be kneaded with the hands. Knead well, keeping warm, add vanilla
and form into small balls. Dip quickly in melted chocolate kept warm over hot
water and drop on waxed paper. Or shape like Easter eggs and dip. Potato
balls can be flattened and topped with English walnut halves, the mixture can
be used to stuff dates, which are then rolled in sugar, or IT CAN BE ROLLED OUT LIKE DOUGH, SPREAD WITH PEANUT BUTTER, ROLLED UP AND SLICED, THEN DIPPED IN COCONUT. [or not dipped in coconut. Had it both ways Phil]




Recipe

Both methods are used by the local Amish and Mennonite population. I refuse to argue if it is PA Dutch or not when a person named Yoder or Peachy wearing a bonnet or cap says they got it from their Grandmother. If it wasn't it is NOW.