Coffee/Tea Sweet Potato Coffee (Substitute)

sweet potato coffee
(from the Georgia Journal and Messenger of Macon, Georgia, October 16, 1861)

Ingredients:

sweet potatoes​

Instructions:

(One of three "Recipes for the Times.")​

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To make good coffee peel sweet potatoes, and slice them 3/8 to 1/2 an inch in thickness, then cut into strips about the same width; then cut the strips into squares so as to average the same size as near as possible. Then dry them in the sun three days as you do fruit, be careful to take them in at night and spread them on the table to keep them from spoiling. After they have been dried three days in this manner, they can be put in a bag and be kept for any length of time.​

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When you wish to use them for coffee, roast them as you would coffee; be careful not to burn them, but roast them to a dark brown; and grind and use them as you would the coffee.​

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I am using it daily, and find it equal to the best old Java.​

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W. S. , Jr.​

 

[donna]

Another use of sweet potatoes during war years.