Southern
Sweet Potato, Southern Style
From The Rural cook book, 1907
Serves 6
Presented as published in 1907. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from The Rural cook book (1907), page 91. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Sweet Potato, Southern Style. — Peel and boil until they are thoroughly but not too well cooked. Then they should be cut into four pieces length- wise and placed in a tin baking pan. Butter and sugar should be placed over the potatoes abundantly before they are put in the oven to bake slowly. After a while, the butter and sugar mingling with the juice of the potatoes, forms a delicate crust that should be cooked until it has 123 THE RURAL COOK BOOK. almost reached Ihe point at which it is candy. Under this crust is a thick, rich syrup of the sap of the potatoes, sugar and butter. Stuffed Sweet Potatoes
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