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Carolina Sweet Potatoes

Baked sweet potatoes with water, cooked at 300°F then 400°F.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Carolina Sweet Potatoes

Oven, in the book's wordsA slow oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a slow oven”. The 300°F (150°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Pare off any specks from the sweet potatoes and wash them thoroughly.

  2. Place the sweet potatoes in a baking pan with 1 cup of water.

Bake

  1. Cover the pan and bake in a preheated oven at 300°F (150°C) for a while.

  2. Increase the temperature to 400°F (200°C) to finish baking.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Sweet potatoes
Form the main body of the dish, softening into a tender, sweet flesh as they bake.
Water
Creates steam in the covered pan, helping the potatoes cook through gently and stay moist.

“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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