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Candied Sweet Potato Balls

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Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. Potato
  2. Sweet potatoes
  3. one-half cupful of water
  4. a teaspoonful of vanilla
  5. two cupfuls of sugar

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Take some good sweet potatoes, peel them, and then scoop out little balls with a vegetable scoop.
  2. Boil these balls in slightly salted water until tender enough to pierce with a splint.
  3. Remove from the fire and drain off the water.
  4. Take two cupfuls of sugar and one-half cupful of water and cook to a thick syrup, add a teaspoonful of vanilla and part of the potato balls, dropping them in carefully to prevent breaking.
  5. Let them simmer until they are coated with a thick coating and are transparent or clear.
  6. Remove one at a time with a skimmer or fork, and drop on paraffine paper.
  7. These should harden up on the outside, and make a delicious confection.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Vegetable peeler
  • Slotted spoon
  • Colander