Manuscript Cookbook 216

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1. Candied Sweet Potatoes.

6 large sweet potatoes. 2/3 c dark brown sugar. 1 t salt 1/4 t paprika 3 T pork drippings. 1 C water.

Pell potatoes and cut in halves. Arrange in shallow baking pan. Sprinkle with sugar salt, and paprika. Add rest of ingredients and bake 1 hour in moderate oven. Baste several times during baking. Arrange potatoes around pork roast after it has been placed on serving platter.

2. Pie Crust

6 heaping tablespoonful flour 2 heaping tablespoonful lard 4 tablespoonful water pinch of salt, add a few drops of vinegar makes it lighter.

3. Butterscotch Pie

1 cup brown sugar 1 1/2 cups of milk 2 egg yolks 1 1/2 teaspoonful flour butter size of egg, and 1 teaspoonful vanilla

Cook until thick and put into baked pie crust. Use the whites of eggs for the meringue.