Glazed Sweet Potato II

Ingredients

• 6 medium-sized boiled sweet potatoes
• 1/2 c. butter
• 1 c. sugar
• hot water
• salt

Method

1. 1

   Melt butter in a frying pan, add sugar and a little salt gradually to allow sugar to melt and form a brown sirup.

2. 2

   Add enough hot water to reduce to a thin sirup.

3. 3

   Cut potatoes in lengthwise slices, place in pan and heat over fire, basting constantly until they show a rich golden glaze.

4. 4

   Serve at once.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A laboratory manual of foods and cookery (1916) by Emma B. Matteson, page 32. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

\ c. sugar \ c. water i tbsp. butter Method : Wash and pare sweet potatoes. Cook ten minutes in boiling salted water. Drain, cut in halves lengthwise, and put in a buttered pan. Make a sirup of sugar, water; add butter. Brush potatoes with sirup and bake 15 minutes, basting twice with remaining sirup. Glazed Sweet Potato II Ingredients : 6 medium-sized boiled sweet potatoes | c. butter i c. sugar hot water salt

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