Sweet Potato Biscuit (Old Style)

Ingredients

• 2 large sweet potatoes
• 3 cups flour
• shortening
• 2 eggs
• sweet milk
• salt
• sugar
• baking soda
• buttermilk

Instructions

1. Boil the sweet potatoes soft, then mash them smooth while very hot, removing all strings and eyes. Add a pinch of salt.
2. Rub the mashed potatoes well through the sifted flour. Rub in a generous handful of shortening.
3. Wet up the mixture soft with the two beaten eggs and sweet milk mixed together. If desired, add a little sugar for sweetness.
4. Alternatively, if using soda and buttermilk instead of eggs and sweet milk: mix the baking soda with the buttermilk—just enough to make it foamy, no more—and add this to the dough. In this case, the sugar is advisable.
5. Roll the dough to half-inch thickness and cut out with a small cutter. Lay the biscuits in a warm pan and bake brown in a quick oven.