South carolina sweet potato tea biscuits (lifetime)

12 Servings

Quantity Ingredient
2 cups All-purpose flour
2 cups Mashed sweet potatoes or yams
1 teaspoon Nutmeg
1½ cup Butter OR shortening
¼ cup Buttermilk
4 teaspoons Baking powder
¼ cup Sugar
½ cup Chopped pecans; optional

1.In a bowl sift together flour, salt, sugar, and baking powder. Add butter to flour and mix until you get a grainy consistency. Add mashed sweet potatoes, pecans and enough buttermilk to make a soft but not sticky dough.

2.Knead the dough on a lightly floured board for 1 minute, then roll out the dough to ½ inch thickness. Cut into rounds with a 2-inch cutter or use a shot glass or tulip shaped champagne glass.

3.Place rounds on a lightly greased pan or cookie sheet and bake in a pre-heated 425 degree oven for 15 minutes. Serve hot with homemade jam and butter.

Copyright credit: 1996 by Ashbell McElveen The Sweet Potato Cafe : Links to yam recipes on the internet run by Pamela S. Weston Wstnhouse@... at

Hanneman/Buster/MasterCook

Notes: Lifetime TV (Cable)

Recipe by: Lifetime

Posted to MC-Recipe Digest by KitPATh <phannema@...> on Mar 25, 1998

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