Sweet Potato Pudding
Origin: Tidewater Virginia
Source: Mary Randolph, 1824
Ingredients
- 1 pound sweet potatoes
- 6 eggs
- 3/4 pound powdered sugar
- 3/4 pound butter
- nutmeg
- lemon peel
- 1 glass brandy
- paste
- sugar
- citron
Instructions
- Boil one pound of sweet potatos very tender and rub them while hot through a colander.
- 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.
- Put a paste in the dish.
- When the pudding is done, sprinkle the top with sugar and cover it with bits of citron.
- Irish potato pudding is made in the same manner, but is not so good.