SC - Re: Sweet Potato Pie

[alysk at ix.netcom.com]

Greetings.  _Dining With William Shakespeare_ uses a recipe from
John Murrell, _A Delightfull daily exercise for Ladies and
Gentlewomen_, 1621.  This is the original recipe.

"To Make a Paste of Potatoes"

"Boyle your Potatoes very tender, pare them and pricke out all the blackes of them, put to every 
pound of them a graine of Muske, and beat them in a stone morter very fine, then take as much 
refined Sugar as the Pulp doth weigh, and boyle it to a candy height with as much Rose-water as 
will dissolve it, then put in the pulpe into the boiling Sugar, let it boyle alwayes stirring it 
until it comes from the bottom of the posnet, then lay it on a sheet of glass in round cakes or in 
what fashion you please, and set it in a warm oven or Stove, and when it is candied on the top, 
then turne it on the other side, and let it candy, and in ten or twelve daies it will be dry, then 
boxe it for your use."

IIRC, candy height is the equivalent of the thread stage today.

Alys Katharine