Nannie's sweet potatoes

1 Servings

Ingredients

QuantityIngredient
6largesSweet potatoes (about 4 lbs)
1Lemon; washed
1Orange; washed
¾cupButter; melted
2cupsSugar
½cupOrange juice
2teaspoonsGround cinnamon
1teaspoonVanilla extract

Directions

Clarion Ledger Recipes, 11/19/97 Peel potatoes and cut into ¼" slices. Place in a 12x8 baking dish. Slice lemon and oranges very thinly and place slices on top of sweet potatoes.

Combine melted butter, sugar, orange juice and cinnamon. Stir in vanilla.

Pour mixture over sweet potato mixture, cover with plastic and let stand 1 hour. Bake, uncovered, at 350* for 1½ hours, basting often with pan juices, or until potatoes are tender. Makes 12 servings.

Posted to EAT-L Digest by Shawn Zehnder Lea <slea@...> on Nov 19, 1997