Sweet Potato And Apple Casserole - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 lb. sweet potatoes (about 5 or 6 medium)
1 1/2 lb. cooking apples
2/3 c. light brown sugar
6 Tbsp. butter
1/2 c. apple cider
3 Tbsp. maple syrup
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. ginger

Preparation

Cook
potatoes\tin
their skins, in just enough boiling water to\tcover
them, until barely tender, about 30 minutes; drain. When
cool\tenough\tto
handle,
peel
off skins, they should slip
off
easily.\tCut potatoes into crosswise slices 1/4-inch thick.
Peel and cut apples, remove cores.\tCut into slices 1/4-inch
thick.
While
you
prepare
the sauce, keep apple slices
in\twater
with
a\tlittle lemon juice added to prevent discoloring.
In
a
small\tsaucepan,
bring
sugar, butter, cider,
syrup,
lemon
juice,
cinnamon and ginger to boil;
boil at\ta simmer for 10 minutes.
Drain apples;
dry. Arrange overlapping
slices of apples and sweet potatoes in a buttered shallow 2-quart baking dish.
Put slices at an angle, a
few apple
slices,
then
a few sweet potato slices.
Pour sauce
over all.
Bake
at
325\u00b0
for\t25 to 30 minutes until apples
are tender, basting occasionally with sauce in casserole.
Note:
All apples
vary
in
moisture content.
If the casserole
seems
to liquid,
gently remove some of the sauce with
a
big
spoon
or a bulb baster.
But remember that the sauce
is
delicious and that you will want to spoon some over each serving, so don't remove too much.