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Candied Yams

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Difficulty: medium

Categories: Side, Gluten-free, Holiday, Baked

Tags: baked, easy, gluten-free, recipes using brown sugar, recipes using margarine, recipes using sweet potato, recipes with metric units, recipes without cooking time, recipes without servings, side dish, thanksgiving, united states

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3ACandied_Yams)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3ACandied%20Yams&oldid=4629674

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

  • 6 sweet potatoes
  • ½ cup margarine
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 2 tbsp vanilla extract
  • ¼ cup water

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 °F (175 °C).
  2. Boil yams in skins until about half done.
  3. Drain water from yams, remove skins, and cut in cubes.
  4. Place yam cubes in a greased baking dish and dot with margarine.
  5. Make a syrup by boiling brown sugar, water, and vanilla together. Pour over the yams.
  6. Bake for 45 to 50 minutes, basting frequently with syrup, until yams are tender.
  7. This recipe reuses material from the article Candied yams at Wikipedia under the GFDL.