Name: Possum and Sweet Potatoes
Ingredients: 1 possum; handful of wood ashes; sweet lard; sweet potatoes

Possum and Sweet Potatoes

Ingredients

1 possum
handful of wood ashes
sweet lard
sweet potatoes

Directions

Scald and scrape the possum clean by plunging it into hot water mixed with wood ashes.
Rub the cleaned possum thoroughly with sweet lard.
Place the possum on a bed of sweet potatoes.
Cook until the possum is tender and the sweet potatoes are soft.

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.