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.

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