SC - Humbert of Romans on monastic food and eating

[Philip & Susan Troy]

>Sweet Potatoes
>
>To butter Potato roots.  Take the roots & bole them in water till they bee
>verie soft, then peele them and slice them, then put some rosewater to them
>& sugar & the pill of an orenge, & some of the iuice of the orenge, so let
>them boile a good while, then put some butter to them, & when the butter is
>melted serve them. This way you may bake them, but put them unboiled into
>the paste.
>
>	Elynor Fettiplace
>	The Receipt Book of Ladie Elynor Fettiplace, 1647

>Notes:  Two pounds of sweet potato will fill an 8" or 9" pie pan.
>
>The results resemble whipped potato potatoes, if the sweet potatoes are
>thoroughly boiled.

They even more closely resemble the usual ingredients for sweet potota pie 
or sweet potato pudding as it is still served in the south.  Just leave out 
the rosewater.

Bonne
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