Sweet Potato Pudding

Ingredients

• 4 whole eggs
• 4 cups sugar
• 1 cup butter
• 1 cup milk
• 1 pint sweet potato

Instructions

1. Beat the four eggs very light. Combine with the four cups sugar and one cup creamed butter, beating well. Add the cup of very rich milk and mix smooth. Stir in the pint of raw grated sweet potato and mix well.
2. Pour the mixture into a deep earthen dish and set in a hot oven. As soon as a brown crust forms on top, stir it down. Repeat this process of allowing a crust to form and stirring it down at least three times total.
3. Serve hot, accompanied by either wine sauce or a rich sugar and butter sauce flavored with lemon. The author notes it is best not to flavor the pudding itself, so that the zest of the brown crust stirred through it remains undiminished.