Candied Sweet Potatoes - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 cup dark brown sugar
1/4 cup water
2 tablespoons butter
1/4 teaspoon salt
4 sweet potatoes, boiled & peeled

Preparation

Boil sweet potatoes in skins for 15 minutes, rinse with cool water and remove skins.
Mix brown sugar and water in sauce pan, and boil together for 5-minutes, stirring frequently forming a syrup.
Add butter and stir until dissolved. Add salt and remove from heat.
Cut sweet potatoes in quarters lengthwise with cut side down in a.
greased 9\"x12\" baking dish.
Poor syrup mixture over the sweet potatoes, cover them and bake at a 350\u00b0 F oven for 60-minutes.
Baste sweet potatoes with syrup in the pan.
Turn them over every 10-minutes.
Remove from oven.
Optional: serve with or without butter.