Sweet Potatoes

Ingredients

• Sweet Potatoes
• a piece of butter
• salt
• pepper

Method

1. 1

   Boil in salted water until tender, then cut in halves, peel and put on in tin pan a piece of butter on each half, sprinkle with salt and pepper and brown in the oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A bill of fare for every day in the year ... (1892) by Beatrice Wilde Bryant, page 36. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Sweet Potatoes. Olives. Bread and Butter. Macaroon Pudding. 5upper— Sardine Salad. Thin Bread and Butter. Canned Fruit, Cake. Tea. Macaroon Pudding. — i quart milk, i tablespoonful cornstarch yolks of 3 eggs, i cup sugar, i saltspoonful salt, flavor with bitter almond. Boil the milk, and then add the other ingredients dissolved in I cup cold milk. Have ready in a pudding dish one dozen maca- roons, pour the mixture over them while hut, then beat the whites of 3 eggs to a stiff froth with i small tablespoonful of powdered sugar. Drop this on the top of the macaroons, place the pudding in oven until a light brown. MONDAY, Breakfast— Indian Mush witli Cream, Bacon. Bread and Butter. Coffee. Dinner— Soup, Beef Olives. Potatoes. Butter. Lemon Pie. Cheese. Supper— Scalloped Potatoes. Fresh Graham Bread. Apple Sauce. Cake. Cocoa, OCT. Eggs and Fall Spinach. Bread and 16 Butter. Lemon Pie.— Take i lemon, grate the outside, leaving the white then grate the inside, i grated potato size of thelemon, i cup sugar, I of water, yolks of 2 eggs. Mix all together and let boil. Line a pie plate with rich crust, till with the above mixture and bake. When done, cover with a meringue made thus : — Whites of 2 eggs beaten stiff, sweetened with 2 teaspoonfuls powdered sugar. Return to the oven and bake a light brown. 17 TUESDAY, OCT. Breakfast —Grapes. Soft Boiled Eggs. Bread and Butter. Fried Indian Mush. MapleSyrup. Coffee. -^^ Dinner— Beef Stew with Dumphngs. Potatoes. Turnips a la Creme. Bread and Butter. Apple Pie. Cheese. Supper— Chipped Beef. Souffle Bread. Baked Quinces. Cake. Tea. Turnips a la Creme. — Peel and cut turnips into half inch dice, boil in salted water and drain. Pour over a cream sauce made of i cup hot milk poured gradually over i tablespoonful each of butter and flour, salt and pepper. WEDNESDAY, OCT. 18 Breakfast— California Breakfast Food with Cream. Warmed over Stew. Bread and Butter. Coffee. Dinner — Mutton Chops. Baked Potatoes. Stewed Tomatoes. Bread and Butter. Chocolate Blanc-mange. Supper— Cheese Fritters. Bread and Butter, Jam. Cream Calse. Cocoa. Cream Cake, No. 2. — Cake. — 3 eggs, (whites and yolks beaten separately,) I'j cups sugar, J2 cup cold water, 2 cups flour, \% tea- spoonfuls baking powder, bake in jelly tins. Filling. — Boil i pint milk, add ',2 cup sugar, a pinch of salt, 2 tablespoonfuls flour, rubbed smooth in a little cold milk, i tablespoonful butter and 2 well beaten eggs. Cook in a double boiler till smooth. When cool, flavor with vanilla. THURSDAY, OCT. 19 Breakfast— Grapes. Scrambled Eggs. Warmed Potatoes. Hot Toast. Coffee. Dinner— Roast of Lamb. Gravy. Mint Sauce. Potatoes. Peas, Bread and Butter. Amber Pudding. Supper— Sour Milk Griddle Cakes. Maple Syrup. Hot Baked Apples. Cake. Tea. Amber Pudding.- 2 eggs, their weight in sugar, butter, flour, and the juice and grated peel of i lemon. Beat the yolks with the sugar, lemon juice and butter softened till very light, sift in the flour and grated peel. Butter a small bowl or mould, pour the mixture in and boil two hours. FRIDAY, OCT. 20 Breakfast — Oatmeal and Cream. Creamed Salt Fish. Warmed Potatoes. Bread and Butter. Coffee. Dinner— Fried Halibut. Potatoes. Cold Slaw. Sweet Potatoes, Bread and Butter. Baked Custard. Supper— Veal Loaf. Bread and Butter. Baked Pears. Cake. Cocoa. Sweet Potatoes. — Boil in salted water until tender, then cut in halves, peel and put on in tin pan a piece of butter

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