Sweet Potato And Apple Casserole
- 2 lb. sweet potatoes (about 5 or 6 medium)
- 1 1/2 lb. cooking apples
- 2/3 c. light brown sugar
- 6 Tbsp. butter
- 1/2 c. apple cider
- 3 Tbsp. maple syrup
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp. ginger
- Cook
- potatoestn
- their skins, in just enough boiling water totover
- them, until barely tender, about 30 minutes; drain. When
- cooltnoughto
- handle,
- peel
- off skins, they should slip
- off
- easily.tut potatoes into crosswise slices 1/4-inch thick.
- Peel and cut apples, remove cores.tut into slices 1/4-inch
- thick.
- While
- you
- prepare
- the sauce, keep apple slices
- intater
- with
- atittle lemon juice added to prevent discoloring.
- In
- a
- smalltaucepan,
- bring
- sugar, butter, cider,
- syrup,
- lemon
- juice,
- cinnamon and ginger to boil;
- boil att simmer for 10 minutes.
- Drain apples;
- dry. Arrange overlapping
- slices of apples and sweet potatoes in a buttered shallow 2-quart baking dish.
- Put slices at an angle, a
- few apple
- slices,
- then
- a few sweet potato slices.
- Pour sauce
- over all.
- Bake
- at
- 325u0b0
- fort5 to 30 minutes until apples
- are tender, basting occasionally with sauce in casserole.
- Note:
- All apples
- vary
- in
- moisture content.
- If the casserole
- seems
- to liquid,
- gently remove some of the sauce with
- a
- big
- spoon
- or a bulb baster.
- But remember that the sauce
- is
- delicious and that you will want to spoon some over each serving, so don't remove too much.
sweet potatoes, cooking apples, light brown sugar, butter, apple cider, maple syrup, cinnamon, ginger
Taken from www.cookbooks.com/Recipe-Details.aspx?id=1007009 (may not work)