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Sweet Potatoes

From Virginia Cookery-book, 1884

Serves 6

Sweet potatoes are often served with milk as a dessert.

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 Virginia Cookery-book (1884) by Mary Stuart Smith, page 67. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a quarter of a pound may be allowed for a half -gallon dish ; sprinkle on top two table-spoonfuls of granulated white sugar, and you can hardly have a dish on your table that will be more generally relished. Some* VmOINIA GOOKERT-BOOK. 186 times also, for a change, they may be steamed or boiled, peeled, and sent to table in a covered dish, with a table- spoonful of melted butter poured over them. Sweet-potatoes

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