Herself's Recipes

8-10 sliced sweet potato or yams
1/4 lb butter
1 cup unpacked brown sugar
12 oz. chicken broth
8 oz. pineapple juice
1 tbs. Molasses

Combine all ingredients in sauce pan on medium heat until steaming hot.
Layer potatoes and sauce in crock pot.
Cook on high for 4 hours or low for 8 hours.

Drain off excess sauce prior to serving.

Extra sauce is great for candied carrots, or to baste a ham.

Sweet potatoes are about the healthiest vegetable you can eat and it is one of the lowest in calories packing the most nutrition per calorie you are likely to find.

To entertain the children ( and cooks ) wash a sweet potato. Put toothpicks in the sides about 1/3 down from the top. Put the potato in a jar using the toothpicks to hold it up on the rim. Fill the jar with water. In a week and a half to two weeks the potato will bud and you’ll have a sweet potato vine growing in your kitchen. Down here in Houston they are grown as an ornamental plant in gardens.

6 tbls shortening
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 cup molasses
1/4 cup milk
1 3/4 cups flour
1 3/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/3 tsp salt
3/4 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp allspice
1/4 tsp cloves
1 cup seeded raisins

cream shortening and sugar
add egg and molasses, mix well
add milk slowly
add mixed dry ingredients
add raisins , mix well
drop onto greased cookie sheet, bake 10 mins at 350′

This is an old New England favorite and dates back to colonial times.