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Potato Recipes
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Sweet Potatoes
Sweet potatoes are certainly a treat when it comes to the holiday season. Even though I like them a lot, it doesn't seem like I ever buy any until Thanksgiving rolls around. I think I prefer them baked overall, but here are some other sweet potato recipes for variety. The most popular one being the Glazed Sweet Potatoes.
At the bottom is a recipe for Sweet Potato Pie too. How many more ways can there be to cook Sweet Potatoes? Try this - Add brown sugar and butter to mashed sweet potatoes. Scoop into shells of halved oranges, put in the oven a few minutes, take them out and watch the smiles.
Sweet Potato Tips: For simple peeling, take boiled potatoes and dip in cold water, and the peelings will slip right off.
Also, uncooked sweet potatoes will not turn dark if put in salted water (5 teaspoons to 1 quart of water) immediately after peeling.
More potato recipes: See scalloped and baked potato recipes, or fried potato recipes, or potato salads
Baked Sweet Potatoes
Select smooth, medium-sized potatoes. Wash, using a vegetable
brush, and place in dripping-pan. Bake in hot oven forty minutes or until soft,
remove from oven, and serve at once. If allowed to stand, unless the skin is ruptured
for escape of steam, they become soggy.
Recipe from 1893
Fannie Farmer Cookbook
Southern Style Sweet Potatoes
Bake six medium sized sweet potatoes, remove from oven, cut in halves lengthwise, and scoop out inside. Mash, add two tablespoons butter, and cream to moisten. Season with salt and Sherry wine. Refill skins and bake five minutes in a hot oven.Recipe from 1893 Fannie Farmer Cookbook
Boiled Sweet Potatoes
Select potatoes of uniform size. Wash, pare, and cook twenty minutes in boiling salted water to cover. Many boil sweet potatoes with the skins on.Recipe from 1893 Fannie Farmer Cookbook
Glazed Sweet Potatoes
Wash and pare six medium-sized
potatoes. Cook in boiling salted water until soft. Drain, cut in halves lengthwise,
and put in a buttered pan. Make a syrup by boiling three minutes one-half cup
sugar and four tablespoons water; add one tablespoon butter. Brush potatoes with
syrup and bake until brown, basting twice with remaining syrup.
Recipe from
1893 Fannie Farmer Cookbook
Sweet Potato Fries
1 lb sweet potatoes
1 egg white
2 tsp. chili powder
1/4
tsp. garlic powder
1/4 tsp. onion powder
Peel and cut potatoes into
1/4 - 1/2 inch strips. In a bowl, combine egg white and seasonings. Coat well.
Add potatoes, toss to coat. Place in a single layer on two baking sheets that
have been coated with cooking spray. Bake uncovred at 450 for 20 to 25 minutes
or until golden brown. Yields: 8 servings.
Recipe from a 2001
Cedar County Catholic Schools Cookbook
Mashed Sweet Potatoes
To
two cups riced sweet potatoes add three tablespoons butter, one-half teaspoon
salt, and hot milk to moisten. Beat until light, and pile on a serving dish.
Recipe
from 1893 Fannie Farmer Cookbook
My Note: A popular Connecticut dish for the holidays is mixing half mashed potatoes, with half mashed sweet potatoes.
Georgian Style Sweet Potatoes
Season mashed boiled sweet potatoes with butter, salt, pepper, and Sherry wine. Moisten with cream, and beat five minutes. Put in a buttered baking-dish, leaving a rough surface. Pour over a syrup made by boiling two tablespoons molasses and one teaspoon butter five minutes. Bake in the oven until delicately browned.Recipe from 1893 Fannie Farmer Cookbook
Sweet Potatoes Au Gratin
Cut five medium-sized cold boiled sweet potatoes in one-third inch slices. Put a layer in buttered baking-dish, sprinkle with salt, pepper, and three tablespoons brown sugar, dot over with one tablespoon butter.Repeat,
cover with buttered cracker crumbs, and bake until the crumbs are brown.
Recipe
from 1950's Cookbook
Sweet Potato Pie
1/4 cup butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 cup mashed sweet potatoes
3 eggs
1/3 cup corn
syrup
1/3 cup milk
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup broken pecans
- for Sweet Potato Pecan Pie
Plain Pastry
Crean
together the butter and sugar. Add mashed potatoes and slightly beaten eggs. Mix
well. Combine with sirup, milk, salt, vanilla, and pecans. Turn mixture into a
pastry shell. Bake at 425 10 minutes. Reduce heat and continue baking at 325 for
35 to 45 minutes longer. Omit pecans if you just
want a plain sweet potato pie.
Recipe from 1972 Cookbook
My Favorite Candied Yams
1 can yams - drain only some of the juice...pour
in a pan.
Sprinkle brown sugar on top...put in moderate oven at 350, heat up
till hot, till like the brown sugar is melted....
Add marshmallows on top and
brown marshmellows in oven
Oh, you can add pecans
too, when you add the marshmellows
Add them the last five minutes of cooking
time.
Recipe from my daughter Jenilee in Connecticut
Easy Candied Sweets (Recipe from 1963)
Melt 2 tablespoons butter or margarine and 1/3
cup orange marmalade in skillet. Add one 18 oz can whole yams or sweet potatoes,
drained. Dash with salt. Heat uncovered, over low heat about 5 minutes, basting
often till potatoes are glazed and hot through. If necessary, add 1 tablespoon
water or liquid from potatoes, while heating) Makes 5 or 6 servings.
Recipe
from 1963 Cookbook
Sweet Potatoes with Apples and Raisins
2
c. sweet potatoes
1/4 c. raisins
1/2 c. apple pie filling
1/4 c. boiling
water
1/2 c. miniature marshmallows
Drain sweet potatoes and combine
with raisins and apple pie filling. Add boiling water. Sprinkle marshmallows over
top with a little bit of brown sugar. Bake uncovered at 375 for 35-40 minutes.
Recipe
from a 2001 Cedar County Catholic Schools
Cookbook
Sweet Potatoes with Cornflake Topping
2
cups sweet potatoes
1 1/2 cups white sugar
2 eggs
3/4 stick butter
1
cup milk
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
TOPPING:
3/4
cup cornflakes
1/2 cup nuts
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 stick butter
Melt
butter and mix in rest of ingredients. Spread over top. Bake at 400 for 10 minutes.
Recipe
from 1972 Cookbook
Sweet Potato Balls
To two cups hot riced sweet potatoes add three tablespoons butter, one-half teaspoon salt, few grains pepper, and one beaten egg.Shape in small balls, roll in flour, fry in deep fat, and
drain. If potatoes are very dry, it will be necessary to add hot milk to moisten.
Recipe
from 1893 Fannie Farmer Cookbook
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