Baked Sweet Potatoes with Sugar

Ingredients

• half a dozen sweet potatoes
• a spoonful of brown sugar
• season with salt
• season with pepper
• one spoonful of hot water

Method

1. 1

   Boil sweet potatoes, cut, lay in a buttered dish, spread with butter, sprinkle with sugar, season, add water, and bake until brown.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Hotel St. Francis cook book (1919) by Hirtzler, Victor., page 200. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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