Sweet Potato Recipes

Sweet Potato Souffle

You can make these the day before and re-heat in the oven.

1 quart mashed cooked sweet potatoes
1 ts. cinnamon
1/4 cup melted butter
2 eggs beaten
1 tsp. allspice
1/2 cup sugar or less
1/2 cup sherry
1/2 cup chopped pecans or walnuts

Mix all ingredients together and put into a greased casserole dish and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes or until heated through.


Sweet Potato Puff

4 cups mashed cooked yams or sweet potatoes
1/4 cup melted butter
1/2 cup half and half cream
some salt
1/4 tsp pepper
1/8 tsp. cinnamon
4 eggs, separated
4 additional egg whites

Mash the yams with the melted butter.  Beat in the cream, eggs yolks, salt, cinnamon and pepper.  Beat the egg whites, all eight of them, until stiff (not dry) and fold gently into the yam mixture.  Spoon everything into the buttered souffle dish.  Bake in 325 degree preheated oven for 30 minutes until golden and puffed.


You can add sweet potatoes to the apple betty to make a Georgia apple sweet potato crunch

2 cups cooked, peeled and thinly sliced sweet potatoes
1 1/2 cups apples, peeled and thinly sliced
1/4 cup golden raisins

1/3 cup brown sugar
3 Tbsp. butter or margarine
1/4 tsp. salt

Topping to put on and then broil:
2 Tbsp. melted butter
1 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup flour
1/2 cup copped pecans

Preheat oven to 350. spray a 2 quart baking dish with cooking spray.  Put in half the sweet potatoes and cover with one half of the apples and raisins  Sprinkle with 1/6 cup brown sugar and dot with 1 Tbsp margarine.  Add remaining sweet potatoes, apples, and raisins and top with 1/6 cup brown sugar 2 Tbsp. margarine and salt.   Cover and bake 30 minutes

Uncover and bake until the apples are soft. about 30 additional minutes.

Meanwhile in a medium bowl combine the melted margarine, 1 cup brown sugar, flour and pecans. Sprinkle the pecan mixture over the baked desert and place under a broiler for 1 to 2 minutes, just until top is golden brown.




Sweet Potato Pone
This is from a cookbook called Cordon Bubba on Texas cuisine

2 cups grated sweet potato.  Try to grate the potatoes finer than the regular sized grater option.
1 cup milk
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 Tbsp. butter
dash of salt

Combine all ingredients.  Bake at 350 degrees in an ovenproof casserole dish for 35 minutes or until set.