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Mashed Sweet Potatoes

Name: Mashed Sweet Potatoes
Yield: 3 servings
Ingredients: eight good-sized potatoes; a quarter of a pound of butter; a half cupful of cream; as much sugar; very little nutmeg

From The new Kentucky home cook book, 1884

Serves 3

Presented as published in 1884. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Kentucky home cook book (1884) by Maysville (Ky.). Methodist Episcopal Church, South., page 82. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MASHED SWEET POTATOES. Place in a steamer over a pot of boiling water, and steam until soft; remove the skin, and mash perfectly smooth, seasoning with plenty of butter, some sugar, and a little cream — a quarter of a pound of butter to eight good-sized potatoes, a half cupful of cream, as much sugar, and very little nutmeg

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