Yam or Sweet Potatoes Steamed

Ingredients

• Yam and sweet potatoes if fresh should be steamed
• cutting them in pieces about one inch thick

Method

1. 1

   Peel the yam or sweet potato, cutting them in pieces about one inch thick.

2. 2

   Steam them in a Welbank boilerette or place them on a sieve over boiling water.

3. 3

   Keep the water boiling and in twenty minutes the yam will be done.

4. 4

   Mash the yam or sweet potatoes through a potato masher, adding salt and pepper, then serve.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Practical West African cookery (1910) by S. Leith-Ross, page 51. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Yam or Sweet Potatoes Steamed. (I). Yam and sweet potatoes if fresh should be steamed, not boiled, if boiled they are liable to turn out spongy 106 VEGETABLES. 1. Peel the yam or sweet potato, cutting them in pieces about one inch thick

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