Sweet Potato Biscuits
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Martha Hall Foose's literary agent, Sharon Bowers, swears by this recipe for Sweet Potato Biscuits from Martha's new book, Screen Doors and Sweet Tea. Don't be fooled by the short list of conventional ingredients—these biscuits are anything but ordinary. Top them with your favorite marmalade or salty country ham.
Sweet Potato Biscuits
- makes 12 biscuits -
Adapted from Screen Doors and Sweet Tea by Martha Hall Foose.
Ingredients
1 cup mashed baked sweet potato (about 2 medium)
2/3 cup whole milk
4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, melted
1 1/4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
Procedure
1. Preheat the oven to 450°F. Grease a baking sheet and set aside.
2. In a medium bowl, mix the sweet potato, milk, and butter. Sift together the four, baking powder, sugar, and salt. Add to the potato mixture. Gently mix the dry ingredients into the sweet potato mixture to form a soft dough. Drop the dough by tablespoonfuls onto the prepared baking sheet.
3. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes, or until a deep golden orange tinged with brown. Serve warm or let cool on a wire rack.
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3 Comments:
This is a definite must try! I'm getting a small ham next weekend, so I hope I get a cool day to bake both.
PerkyMac at 12:53PM on 06/18/08
I tried these last night. They were extremely tasty but because I didn't measure the sweet potato (I just used two medium ones and assumed it was one cup), they came out very flat...not biscuit-like at all but we loved them. They were more like pancakes that you could pick up with your hands :-)
Muhlyssa at 11:22AM on 06/27/08
I made note of this recipe back in June, but didn't try it until now. It's a great way to use up leftover holiday sweet potatoes. The biscuits are FABULOUS. I served them with some homemade pineapple jam at breakfast, but I could totally see doing them with ham and chutney at dinner, or just gobbling them down unadulterated. The recipe made 12 nice-sized biscuits and they were gone before the pan cooled.
Muhlissa, I suspect you added more than a cup of mashed tater. I don't know what a "medium" potato - is they go from pretty-darned small to giants of several pounds, especially if you grow your own. But I LIKE the idea of a sweet potato pancake - you could roll all sorts of things into it. Yum!
matriarchy at 11:40AM on 01/02/09