Sweet potatoes and marshmallows

I use to make it and just put some cooked sweet potato pieces or mashed in a casserole dish,dot with butter, add spices you prefer, I used cinnamon and a bit of nutmeg. Cover with mini marshmallows and heat in the oven. If the marshmallows aren't as brown as you like you can stick it under the broiler for a minute or two. Watch it carefully they brown quickly.

I stopped making it because when the kids were small they would eat the topping off and I ended up with a casserole full of naked sweet potatoes. I do think it is a southern dish that caught on all over the country.
 
i love sweet potatoes with marshmellows---i use to bake my potatoes in the oven and when they were done i would put the marshmellows on top and pop it back in the oven till they melted or if i had marshmellow fluff i would use that ----yum yum--oooo i would cut the potatoe open to put the marhmellow in
 
I like sweet potatoes with marshmallow casserole; but I never make it. I just plain love sweet potatoes, and I normally just put one in the microwave and cook it, and then add lots of cinnamon, butter, and brown sugar, or the sugar-free pancake syrup, and that is how I eat my sweet potatoes.
I don’t really like marshmallows unless they are toasted on the end of a stick and over an open campfire. Otherwise, they are just gooey and sweet. But , when melted on top of sweet potatoes, they are browned and delicious that way, too.
 
Oh, my mom made it every year. And we are Northerners. All she did was put some mashed sweet taters in a casserole dish, squish some marshmallows on top, and put them in the oven until the marsmallows were melted. I never liked them.
I remember the year my sister in law made them. She tripped while bring them out to the table, and the whole thing splashed all over her sheer white curtains. Everyone LOL'd...except my sister in law.
 
Yeah, its a southern thing and a must have for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. Wonderful with the spices just right. Its sweet but you don't eat a lot of it, just a good dollop beside your cornbread dressing and turkey.
 
My MIL always made sweet potatoes that way for Thanksgiving and started having me make it for the holiday. I made it for YEARS and Years and I am STILL trying to get out of it. I never liked it very much and now I`d much rather just have a baked sweet potato or one of many other recipes I`ve tried. But everyone (and this is my family now)wants the old one. Even the people who normally would never eat something that sweet. Weird.
 
This was a standard Thanksgiving dish in olden days but it is far too sweet for my tastes today. I use a mixture of coarsely chopped apple with the chunkedd, cooked and seasoned sweet potato with a topping of crispy browned Panko.
 
I make sweet potato casserole every Thanksgiving. My children would disown me as their mother if I didn’t!! ;) Yes it’s sweet...the added brown sugar helps. But it’s also chock full of delicious spices, egg and milk to make it set, butter for added richness, pecans for extra crunch, chopped in the mix and also mixed in with the topping and interspersed with the marshmallows. A lovely counterpoint to the savory turkey, giblet gravy and cornbread dressing.
 
Ronni said:
I make sweet potato casserole every Thanksgiving. My children would disown me as their mother if I didn’t!! ;) Yes it’s sweet...the added brown sugar helps. But it’s also chock full of delicious spices, egg and milk to make it set, butter for added richness, pecans for extra crunch, chopped in the mix and also mixed in with the topping and interspersed with the marshmallows. A lovely counterpoint to the savory turkey, giblet gravy and cornbread dressing.
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Sounds like a form of sweet potato pie in a way!
 
Here's our family recipe for Sweet Potato Crunch. At our house, it wasn't Thanksgiving without it:

Mix together until mostly smooth:

2 beaten eggs
1 small can evaporated milk
1 stick butter
1 cup sugar
2 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1 quart of cooked mashed sweet potatos

Topping:
1 1/2 cup brown sugar
1 stick butter
1 cup self-rising (must be self-rising) flour
1 1/2 cups chopped pecans

Cut butter into flour. Mix together with other ingredients.

Pour sweet potato mix into greased baking dish. Top with topping mixture. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-50 minutes or until firm. If topping starts to brown too much, cover with foil until filling gets firm.

This can also make a good pie (just cut down on the evaporated mix to make an even firmer mixture and pour into pie shell and add topping).

Yes, it has enough sugar and fat to put you in the grave but you'll be lying in your coffin with a smile on your face. Since it's only once a year, I figure the five days it cuts off my life expectancy is well worth it.
 
jujube said:
Here's our family recipe for Sweet Potato Crunch. At our house, it wasn't Thanksgiving without it:

Mix together until mostly smooth:

2 beaten eggs
1 small can evaporated milk
1 stick butter
1 cup sugar
2 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1 quart of cooked mashed sweet potatos

Topping:
1 1/2 cup brown sugar
1 stick butter
1 cup self-rising (must be self-rising) flour
1 1/2 cups chopped pecans

Cut butter into flour. Mix together with other ingredients.

Pour sweet potato mix into greased baking dish. Top with topping mixture. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-50 minutes or until firm. If topping starts to brown too much, cover with foil until filling gets firm.

This can also make a good pie (just cut down on the evaporated mix to make an even firmer mixture and pour into pie shell and add topping).

Yes, it has enough sugar and fat to put you in the grave but you'll be lying in your coffin with a smile on your face. Since it's only once a year, I figure the five days it cuts off my life expectancy is well worth it.
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Thank you for that. That's the exact kind of recipe I was looking for.

I'm trying to put on weight so all those calories don't bother me one bit.
 
jujube said:
Here's our family recipe for Sweet Potato Crunch. At our house, it wasn't Thanksgiving without it:

Mix together until mostly smooth:

2 beaten eggs
1 small can evaporated milk
1 stick butter
1 cup sugar
2 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1 quart of cooked mashed sweet potatos

Topping:
1 1/2 cup brown sugar
1 stick butter
1 cup self-rising (must be self-rising) flour
1 1/2 cups chopped pecans

Cut butter into flour. Mix together with other ingredients.

Pour sweet potato mix into greased baking dish. Top with topping mixture. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-50 minutes or until firm. If topping starts to brown too much, cover with foil until filling gets firm.

This can also make a good pie (just cut down on the evaporated mix to make an even firmer mixture and pour into pie shell and add topping).

Yes, it has enough sugar and fat to put you in the grave but you'll be lying in your coffin with a smile on your face. Since it's only once a year, I figure the five days it cuts off my life expectancy is well worth it.
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Same recipe here. We make it twice a year so its a special treat!
 

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