Good Hope Gazette--See other two posts for all about Christmas tree farms and making day long plans complete with Santa, hayrides, hot chocolate...Working in a couple of recipes from the 1998 The Best of Georgia Farms Cookbook and Tour Book for some classic favorites. According to today's online 'Lilburn Patch' article with a list, a favorite for Georgia fans of Southern style cooking is sweet potato casserole*.
We could have some postings of family favorites here, and I know will vary from sweet potatoes with marshmallows; nuts; raisins; cream cheese--I watched a Mexican style concoction of bright orange sweet potatoes take on a light and creamy appearance as the cook stirred in what she called 'Mexican cream.' She says it is savory, and it looked the consistency of the custard like Eagle Brand milk in the little cans my mother used to make lemon pie with graham cracker crust (recipes were on the back of the label that wraps around the small can.
But we are talking sweet potato casserole* today --and I am going to throw in a recipe from the same collections called 'Scripture Cake' made with ingredients mentioned in the Bible.
*Okay, the reason I am 'starring' the term casserole with an asterisk is to note that the recipe I am printing here is called a 'souffle' and was submitted to this cookbook by Debbie Healey: Atlanta, GA She calls her dish "Sweet Potato Souffle Crunch--and I want to feature it here because it has a separate crunch topping that is very popular
Sweet Potato Souffle with Crunch Topping
For the souffle:
3 cups cooked, mashed sweet potatoes
1 cup sugar
half a teaspoon of salt
2 eggs, slightly beaten
2 1/2 tablespoons butter or margarine, melted
1/2 cup milk
teaspoon of vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix all the souffle ingredients together and pour into a greased 8-inch square baking dish. It is ready for the topping before putting into the oven...
For the topping:
2 and a half tablespoons of margarine--1 cup brown sugar--a third of a cup of all purpose flour and 1 cup of chopped pecans--
Answer: No.
"The names sweet potatoes and yams are often used interchangeably. Yet despite the fact that the two have resemblances in appearance and taste, they are from two different families, Yams aren't grown in the United States but closer to the equator."
Marvin's Garden Trivia Question: What is the season for sweet potatoes grown in Georgia to be available?
Answer: Late October through December
"Sweet potatoes grow in all parts of the state, but primarily in South Georgia in the Tifton area, where they flourish in the hot, humid climate."
Teacher note by JustyLeigh: It would be interesting to know if the same types of sweet potatoes in the same areas are still in the areas as noted here in 1998. This article also says there are two types available in Georgia, "the moist-flesh sweet potatoes, which are soft and sweet when cooked; and the Jersey type sweet potatoes, which have a dry, mealy flesh and stay firm when cooked."
Now, in recent years, we know sweet potatoes have a lot of antioxidants. Too, they are so sweet--at least the first type mentioned above are--that the large amounts of sugar and creams used in many of the recipes--or the butter piled onto the sweet potatoes in steak houses and family dining rooms--are not necessary for a simple and sweet meal.
If a single person wants a really simple and good meal, all she or he has to do is to bake a sweet potato and put maybe a little butter or not--cinnamon or nutmeg is good and fragrant--some raisins or currents moistened with orange juice make a good topping. Voila! Breakfast or supper.
I once dated a man who said he did not like sweet potatoes because his mother cooked them in batches and gave them to him and his siblings as after school snacks. He said he got tired of them while very young. All I could think was: How smart was she? That seems to me a great idea!"jls
Scripture Cake (p 273)
Make it a family project to look up the ingredients. All are found in the King James version of the Bible.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream first two ingredients. Add 3rd ingredient one at a time. Add 4th ingredient; beat well. Mix ingredients 5,6, and 7; and add alternately with ingredient number 8. Stir in ingredients 9,10, and 11. Bake in 2 greased loaf pans for one (1) hour or until done. Yields 20 slices. "A Market Bulletin favorite."
We could have some postings of family favorites here, and I know will vary from sweet potatoes with marshmallows; nuts; raisins; cream cheese--I watched a Mexican style concoction of bright orange sweet potatoes take on a light and creamy appearance as the cook stirred in what she called 'Mexican cream.' She says it is savory, and it looked the consistency of the custard like Eagle Brand milk in the little cans my mother used to make lemon pie with graham cracker crust (recipes were on the back of the label that wraps around the small can.
But we are talking sweet potato casserole* today --and I am going to throw in a recipe from the same collections called 'Scripture Cake' made with ingredients mentioned in the Bible.
*Okay, the reason I am 'starring' the term casserole with an asterisk is to note that the recipe I am printing here is called a 'souffle' and was submitted to this cookbook by Debbie Healey: Atlanta, GA She calls her dish "Sweet Potato Souffle Crunch--and I want to feature it here because it has a separate crunch topping that is very popular
Sweet Potato Souffle with Crunch Topping
For the souffle:
3 cups cooked, mashed sweet potatoes
1 cup sugar
half a teaspoon of salt
2 eggs, slightly beaten
2 1/2 tablespoons butter or margarine, melted
1/2 cup milk
teaspoon of vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix all the souffle ingredients together and pour into a greased 8-inch square baking dish. It is ready for the topping before putting into the oven...
For the topping:
2 and a half tablespoons of margarine--1 cup brown sugar--a third of a cup of all purpose flour and 1 cup of chopped pecans--
Make the crunch topping by melting the margarine in a small saucepan and stirring in the brown sugar, flour, and chopped pecans. Sprinkle this 'crunch' over the souffle before baking. Bake for 35 minutes (in the 350 degree oven."Yields 6 to 8 servings."
Some sweet potato facts: (recipe and notes about sweet potatoes are on page 103--and remember this is written back in 1998--which does not seem that long ago, except to a 19 year old who was not even born then).
Marvin's Garden Trivia Question: Are sweet potatoes and yams the same thing?Answer: No.
"The names sweet potatoes and yams are often used interchangeably. Yet despite the fact that the two have resemblances in appearance and taste, they are from two different families, Yams aren't grown in the United States but closer to the equator."
Marvin's Garden Trivia Question: What is the season for sweet potatoes grown in Georgia to be available?
Answer: Late October through December
"Sweet potatoes grow in all parts of the state, but primarily in South Georgia in the Tifton area, where they flourish in the hot, humid climate."
Teacher note by JustyLeigh: It would be interesting to know if the same types of sweet potatoes in the same areas are still in the areas as noted here in 1998. This article also says there are two types available in Georgia, "the moist-flesh sweet potatoes, which are soft and sweet when cooked; and the Jersey type sweet potatoes, which have a dry, mealy flesh and stay firm when cooked."
Now, in recent years, we know sweet potatoes have a lot of antioxidants. Too, they are so sweet--at least the first type mentioned above are--that the large amounts of sugar and creams used in many of the recipes--or the butter piled onto the sweet potatoes in steak houses and family dining rooms--are not necessary for a simple and sweet meal.
If a single person wants a really simple and good meal, all she or he has to do is to bake a sweet potato and put maybe a little butter or not--cinnamon or nutmeg is good and fragrant--some raisins or currents moistened with orange juice make a good topping. Voila! Breakfast or supper.
I once dated a man who said he did not like sweet potatoes because his mother cooked them in batches and gave them to him and his siblings as after school snacks. He said he got tired of them while very young. All I could think was: How smart was she? That seems to me a great idea!"jls
Scripture Cake (p 273)
- 1 cup Judges 5:25 (butter)
- 2 cups Jeremiah 6:20 (sugar)
- 6 Jeremiah 17:11 (eggs)
- 2 tablespoons Samuel 14:25 (honey)
- 4 1/2 cups 1 Kings 4:22 (all purpose flour)
- 2 teaspoons Amos 4:5 (baking powder)
- 1 pinch Leviticus 2:15 (salt)
- 1 cup Judges 4:19 (milk)
- 2 cups 1 Samuel 30:12 (raisins)
- 2 cups Nahum 3:12, chopped (figs)
- 2 cups Numbers 17:8, slivered (almonds)
Make it a family project to look up the ingredients. All are found in the King James version of the Bible.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream first two ingredients. Add 3rd ingredient one at a time. Add 4th ingredient; beat well. Mix ingredients 5,6, and 7; and add alternately with ingredient number 8. Stir in ingredients 9,10, and 11. Bake in 2 greased loaf pans for one (1) hour or until done. Yields 20 slices. "A Market Bulletin favorite."
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