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Southern Sweet Potatoes

Baked sweet potatoes glazed with a brown sugar and water syrup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Kaufman, Nettie M · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Southern Sweet Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Peel and slice parboiled sweet potatoes.

  2. Place them in a buttered pudding dish.

Bake

  1. Pour over the syrup made of water and sugar.

  2. Dot with pats of butter and bake in a moderate oven.

By Kaufman, Nettie M. 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. See the original page.

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What each ingredient does

Sweet potatoes (in the method)
Form the soft, starchy body of the dish.
Brown sugar
Sweetens the syrup and adds caramel flavor as it bakes.
Butter (in the method)
Adds richness and helps the top brown in the oven.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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