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| Name: | Candied Sweet Potatoes | Contributor: | Tom Dietrich |
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| Description: | It's all approximations, so cook beware... ;{> | Posted: | 2002-12-03 |
| Key words: | candied, sweet, potatoes | Category: | Side Dishes |
| ID: | 296 | Updated: | 2006-01-09 16:28:18 |
| Ingredients: | 6 really big sweet potatoes, the ones that are red inside, we're talking 4"-6" in diameter
1/4 lb of butter maple syrup (1 cup?) brown sugar 1/2 tsp of each: cinnamon (maybe a little more of this), nutmeg, ground allspice, ground cloves and ground ginger miniature marshmallows to cover |
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| Preparation: | This year, I wrapped the sweet potatoes in foil and baked them for an hour, then easily
pulled off the skin and diced them in 1" pieces. I then put the pieces in a large baking pan. Put butter in a small (5" dia.) sauce pan. Add maple syrup to about 3/8" deep. Throw in a large hand full of brown sugar. Then what I think of as pie spices. Simmer the mixture. Gently turn the sugar mixture into the sweet potatoes and bake at 350 for about 30 minutes. If you're going to serve them immediately, cover the mixture in miniature marshmallows for the last 20 minutes or until they turn golden brown. |
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| Notes: | If you're taking these to a potluck, wait until you're there to
do the marshmallows. The first year I did this, I put the marshmallows in and took them to Lee & Kristen's, only to discover upon arrival that they had melted into the mixture. So I put *more* on and browned them. ;{) Nobody complained. ;{> |
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