Breads/Biscuits Sweet Potato Wafers & Biscuits

sweet potato wafers & biscuits
(from the Edgefield Advertiser of Edgefield, South Carolina, February 18, 1863)

Ingredients:

2 large, or 4 small sweet potatoes​

a spoonful of lard​

a pinch of salt​

1/2 lb. wheat flour​

1/2 cup of milk (optional)​

1 egg, or 1-2 tbs. of sugar (optional)​

Instructions:

Patty Peablossom contributes the following "new dishes" to the Cultivator:​

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Potato Wafers. -When flour is so high priced as at present, sweet potatoes can be used to great advantage in a variety of breads. Boil two large or four smaller sweet potatoes. Peel and mash them. Put in a large spoonful of lard, a little salt, and knead into them half a pound of wheat flour. Cut into small pieces and bake in a waffle iron, or roll out thin, cut into squares, and bake in an oven as biscuits. A little milk--an egg--or one or two tablespoons of sugar may be added--at will or possession, but simply made as above directed, they are excellent tea cake.​

 

[donna]

A recipe for sweet potatoes. There was question on their use during war years.