Sweet Potato Cakes

Ingredients

• two cupfuls of boiled sweet potatoes
• three eggs
• two tablespoonfuls of cream
• one tablespoonful of melted butter
• two tablespoonfuls of flour

Method

1. 1

   Mash and rub sweet potatoes through a colander.

2. 2

   Beat eggs, mix with squash, cream, butter, and flour.

3. 3

   Cook on a griddle and serve hot.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Harper's cook book encyclopædia (1902), page 489. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

two table-spoonfuls of cream, one table - spoonful of melted butter, about two table - spoonfuls of flour. Beat the eggs into the squash, then, slowly, the cream, the melted butter, salt to taste, and lastly the flour. Add this last cautiously, as some flour thickens more than others, and in this case just enough is needed to hold the ingredients together. Cook as you would cakes on a griddle, and serve very hot. They are eaten with butter and as a vegetable. Squash, Fried. — Pare the squashes, and cut them into thinnish pieces ; make a thin batter of flour and water ; dip them into it, and sprinkle with salt and pepper after you lay them in the hot butter or lard ; fry brown in a rather quick oven, or on the top of the stove ; then turn, and brown them on the other side. Sweet Potatoes, Boiled. — Thor- oughly wash and scrub them, put them in boiling water and cook until they can be easily pierced with a fork. The time will depend on the size of the potatoes, from one -half to one hour. When done pour off the water, cover 434 Sweet Potatoes VEGETABLES Tomatoes, Curried the pot with a cloth, and let the pota- toes steam for *en minutes. Sweet Potatoes, Buttered. — Take good-sized sweet potatoes, scrape and boil them, slice them lengthwise; butter each piece, lay in a pan, and set them in the oven until the butter is well melted into the potatoes. Sweet -potato Cakes. — These are made by using grated boiled sweet potatoes, two cupfuls rubbed through a colander, three eggs

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