Name: Bkowned Sweet Potatoes
Ingredients: medium-sized sweet potatoes; drippings; coarse sea salt

Bkowned Sweet Potatoes

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

medium-sized sweet potatoes
drippings
coarse sea salt

Directions

The book says “a hot oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Boil the sweet potatoes for 45 minutes.
Peel the potatoes and cut them in halves lengthwise.
Place them in a baking pan, baste with drippings, and season with coarse sea salt.
Bake in a hot oven at 400°F (200°C) for 20 minutes.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.