Sweet Potato Pudding

Origin: Tidewater Virginia

Source: Mary Randolph, 1824

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Boil one pound of sweet potatos very tender and rub them while hot through a colander.
  2. Add six eggs well beaten, three quarters of a pound of powdered sugar, three quarters of butter, and some grated nutmeg and lemon peel, with a glass of brandy.
  3. Put a paste in the dish.
  4. When the pudding is done, sprinkle the top with sugar and cover it with bits of citron.
  5. Irish potato pudding is made in the same manner, but is not so good.

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