To Preserve Sweet Potatoes for Winter

Ingredients

• sweet potatoes
• enough boiling water
• butter
• sugar

Method

1. 1

   Boil or steam the potatoes until thoroughly done; slice and dry around the fire or in the sun.

2. 2

   For serving, put required amount into a small baking-dish with enough boiling water to cover, let it set until soft, then add butter and sugar, and brown in the stove.

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.

TO PRESERVE SWEET POTATOES FOR WINTER. Boil or steam the potatoes until thoroughly done; slice them, and keep them around the fire or in the sun until perfectly dry, then put them away in paper sacks. To prepare them for the table: Put as many as are re- quired for one meal into a small baking-dish, with enough 11 162 The New Kentucky Home Cook Booh boiling water to cover them ; let them set on the stove or range until the water has boiled down, and the potatoes are soft; then put in bits of butter and sugar

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