Recipe(tried): Momma's Sweet Potato Biscuits

Here is my mommas famous "Sweet Potato Biscuit" recipe. Ummm, good with a slice of home grown red ripe tomatoe and a nice slice of bacon stuck between um. Ok, friends, here I go with my mommas biscuit recipe.

Now I dedicate this one to "SARAH" and your wonderful response to me!


Momma's Sweet Potato Biscuits

1 Cup of Yams, boiled and smashed up proper
1/2 Cup butter, thats been melted
1/2 Cup sweet milk (thats just regular milk to you outside the south)
2 1/2 Cups of all purpose flour
4 teaspoons bakin powders
1/4 Cup of sugar
1 teaspoon of salt

Now you beat the butter into the yams (The yams should have been boiled until fork tender, then drained off of any liquid) By the way, yams are the same thing as sweet potatoes, it's all about where your from. Sweet potatoes are yams, and yams are sweet potatoes, ok

Now stir in the sweet milk (thats just plain old milk, nothin special, but in the south we gotta be specific, we sometimes use buttermilk and it gets lots of folks confused, and then again, we use whippin milk, which is nothin more than what they call 1/2 and 1/2, it's just sweet milk with a little more cream in it.)

Now, you need to sift your dry ingredients together. Thats your flour and your bakin poweder, and your sugr and your salt. You sift that stuff together proper. It's got to be done right, make sure it's mixed up fine and that flour is fluffed or it just dont work.
Now, you be gentle with the two and stir them in together, and be light with it. You just toss it together lightly with a wooden spoon til it's nice and almost silk like. and then you throw it all out on a flowered piece of board. Then you just roll it out till it's about 2 inches thick. Be careful with the dough, it's fragile, and, you mess with it much and your biscuits come out like rocks. Just treat it like cotton in a field, dont pinch it or hurry it too much.

Now, you got the dough all rolled out, and it's so smooth and silky. You take you cutter. But, before you go any farther, you grease your pan with just a bit of bacon fat and you turn you oven on to 450 degrees. Now, you cut the dough with a biscuit cutter and you be best to mind me to cut the things to no more than three inches across (These things are heavy), then you put them on the greased biscuit pan and pop em in the oven for 15 minutes. When you take them out, you've got biscuits that would probably have won the war if they'd of had 'em. LOL

Ok troops, go and gettem, and enjoy em' for the worth of what I have to offer.

You know friends, recipes are kind of like adventures. I mean, we find them, then we kind of create them, and in the end, we enjoy them. Kind of like what lifes all about, but ohh well. Call me Granny Church, and I've got a ton of things to share with you good folks, and I hope you like'em. Ya'll be good, ya hear!

David in Virginia