Potatoes In Orange Shells - cooking recipe
Ingredients
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8 large sweet potatoes or yams (about 6 lb.)
boiling water
2 tsp. salt
4 Tbsp. light brown sugar
2 tsp. grated orange peel
1/4 c. orange juice
1/4 c. butter or margarine
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
2 c. white sugar
12 oranges
2 Tbsp. vanilla
1 pkg. marshmallows
Preparation
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Wash yams.
Place in large saucepan.
Cover with boiling water. Add 1 teaspoon salt.
Bring to boiling; reduce heat and simmer, covered, 35 to 40 minutes or until tender.
Drain potatoes; let cool.
Peel.
Meanwhile, preheat oven to 350\u00b0.
Remove pulp from oranges (could use a grapefruit knife).
To potatoes, add sugars, orange peel, orange juice, margarine, nutmeg and vanilla.
Pile in orange halves.
(For a decorative touch you might cut a zigzag design in top edge of orange shell with kitchen scissors.)
Pile in orange halves.
Warm potatoes in oven.
Put a marshmallow on each orange half and heat until brown.
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