Sweet Potato Cake

• ½ cup fat
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup mashed sweet potatoes
• ½ cup milk
• ½ cup chopped nuts
• 2 cups flour
• ½ tsp. salt
• 2 tsp. baking powder
• ¼ tsp. soda
• ½ tsp. each cinnamon and nutmeg
• ¼ tsp. cloves

Cream the fat; add sugar and cream well. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each. Add sweet potatoes; mix well.

Sift together the dry ingredients; add alternately with milk to the sweet potato mixture, beginning and ending with dry ingredients. Add nuts last.

Bake in a greased 9 x 9 inch loaf pan in a moderate oven (350°F.) 45 to 50 minutes. This is good served fresh un-iced, or you may frost with any frosting.