Candied sweet potatoes with peanuts
5 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | Med. sweet potatoes or yams | |
| 1 | cup | Boiling water |
| ½ | cup | Firm-packed lt. brown sugar |
| ¼ | cup | Butter or margarine |
| 1 | teaspoon | Prepared mustard |
| ½ | teaspoon | Salt |
| 2 | tablespoons | Chopped peanuts |
Directions
Peel and slice the sweet potatoes, arrange in shallow 2-qt. baking dish.
Combine water, sugar, butter, mustard and salt; pour over potatoes. Bake, covered with foil, at 325 F for 45 minutes. Remove foil. Spoon syrup over potatoes and sprinkle with chopped peanuts. Bake 20 minutes longer, basting several times, until potatoes are tender and slightly glazed and peanuts are lightly browned.
From General Lewis Inn, Lewisburg, W. Va., in "America's Country Inn Cookbook". Typed for you by Joan MacDiarmid.
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest by "Rfm" <Robert-Miles@...> on Sep 26, 98, converted by MM_Buster v2.0l.