Sweet potato and peach chantilly

1 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
6 Medium-sized sweet potatoes or yams (about 3 cups) baked and diced
Salad Oil
2 pounds Fresh ripe peaches (about 3 cups) pitted and diced
½ cup Cold water
1 cup Corn syrup
¼ teaspoon Salt
⅛ teaspoon Freshly ground white pepper
¼ cup Brandy
5 tablespoons Salt butter
½ teaspoon Cinnamon
¼ teaspoon Freshly ground nutmeg
Whipped cream for topping

Directions

(best served smothered with fresh, homemade whipped cream) Taste of New Orleans Cookbook

1. Wash and dry the sweet potatoes. Rub them lightly with salad oil and bake in a 450 oven for 35 minutes. Allow them to cool, then peel and dice into 1-inch cubes. Wash the peaches, remove the pits, peel off the skin, and dice as for the potatoes. Butter a 3-quart baking dish and preheat the oven to 375.

2. In a saucepan, combine the potatoes, peaches, water, syrup, salt, pepper, and brandy. Bring to a boil and cook for about 10 minutes, or until the liquid in the pan begins to turn quite thick. Remove the potato and the peach segments with a slotted spoon and put some of them in a layer in the prepared baking dish. Pour some of the syrup fro, the pan over the layer.

Cut the butter into small pieces and use about 6 pieces to dot the layer, then sprinkle with some of the cinnamon and nutmeg. Repeat the layers until all the peach and potato mixture is used up. Cover the top with the remaining butter and a bit more syrup than the other layers. Bake uncovered in the preheated oven for 35 to 40 minutes, or until the top turns brown and the liquid in the baking dish is well candied.

3. Serve hot with lots of whipped cream.

Posted to Bakery-Shoppe Digest V1 #177 by "Mandy Rose Bell" <mbell@...> on Aug 1, 1997

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