Baked Sweet Potatoes
Wash and peel the sweet potatoes and put them in the oven. A medium-sized potato will take about forty minutes to bake.
Mashed Sweet Potatoes
Peel and boil 6 or 7 sweet potatoes, drain off all the water, and then mash with a wire potato-masher in the saucepan in which they were cooked; mix with them while hot 2 tablespoons of good butter, and dredge generously with salt, and serve very hot.