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Sweet Potato Bread Recipe

Enjoy a Great Holiday or Gift Bread Made From Healthy Sweet Potatoes

Nov 30, 2007 Cyndi Allison

Sweet potatoes are very popular in the South with North Carolina being the top producing state with 40 percent of the crop.

Sweet Potatoes are good for you. The orange tuber ranked first in a study by the Center for Science in the Public Interest looking at the health benefits of various vegetables.

Even Oprah Winfrey has been promoting sweet potatoes. Oprah grew up in the South where sweet potatoes are a staple crop. She knows how tasty sweet potatoes are and now that they are also good for health and wellness. With her backing, sweet potatoes should be even more popular than before.

In the South, sweet potatoes are often called yams, but yams are a different vegetable. Yams tend to be much bigger than sweet potatoes and have tougher skins. Both vegetables can be cooked in many of the same ways, but it’s hard to find real yams in the southern United States.

Sweet potatoes are great baked and served just like baked Irish Potatoes. They do have a wonderful sweet taste. Some people add brown sugar and butter to sweet potatoes to make them sweeter yet. Lone Star Steak House serves them lathered with sugar and butter.

Southerners love to boil sweet potatoes and use the pulp in various sweet potato recipes. Around the holidays, sweet potato casseroles are very popular. Another favorite is sweet potato pie which is much like a pumpkin pie. Sweet potato bread is also a wonderful way to use sweet potatoes. The bread turns out a pretty orange color and the taste is rich and sweet.

Sweet Potato Bread Recipe

3 cups regular flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
3 tsps cinnamon
2 cups sugar
2 cups sweet potato (boiled and mashed)
½ cup nuts (chopped)
4 eggs
1 ¼ cups vegetable oil

Directions:

Mix up the flour, soda, salt, cinnamon, sugar, sweet potatoes and nuts in a big mixing bowl.
Make a big dint in the sweet potato mixture with a spoon and pour in the eggs (beat them well first in a small bowl) and the vegetable oil.
Mix the batter. Do not overmix, or the bread will be tough. Just mix until the sweet potato batter is even and moist.
Grease two loaf pans – standard size. Split batter evenly between the two loaf pans.
Bake at 350 F for approximately one hour.

Sweet potato bread is wonderful served warm with butter or cream cheese. It’s also fine cold as a snack.

Another favorite sweet potato dish in the South is Sweet Potato Casserole. It's a favorite side dish at holidays and is so delicious that it really could double as a dessert.

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