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Holiday Recipes

As promised...

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Sweet Potato Casserole

Casserole:
4 c sweet potato, cubed
1/4 c sugar
2 eggs
1/2 tsp salt
2 tbsp butter
1/2 c milk
1 tsp vanilla extract

Topping:
1/2 c brown sugar
1/3 c flour
3 tbsp butter, melted
1/2 c chopped pecans

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

Put sweet potatoes in a saucepan with water to cover. Cook over medium-high heat until tender. Drain and mash.

In a large bowl, mix together the sweet potatoes, sugar, eggs, salt, butter, milk, and vanilla. Mix until smooth. Transfer to baking dish.

In a medium bowl, mix the sugar and flour. Stir in butter and pecans. Sprinkle the mixture over the casserole.

Bake for 30 minutes, or until the topping is lightly brown.

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Hot Apple Cider

Put in slow cooker:
4 L natural apple juice
1/2 large orange, cut into 4 slices with peel
2 cinnamon sticks

Put in spice ball or tied-off cheesecloth/filter:*
1/2 tsp allspice
1 tsp cloves
1 pinch nutmeg

Heat in slow cooker on LOW. When mixture reaches drinking temperature, change setting to WARM and enjoy.

Apparently, you can also rapid heat this recipe by running it through your coffee maker with apple juice in the water reservoir and the orange, cinnamon sticks, and spices in a coffee filter. It sounded like a lot of work to clean my coffee maker twice in one day, though - and I love how it smells while it heats in the slow cooker all afternoon.

*I folded the spices into a coffee filter and then put that little package in my spice ball because I was using some ground spices and didn't want the cider to get gritty. It worked great!

Labels: Recipe, Slow Cooker Recipes

posted by Lindsay @ 7:51 PM