I remember a few years back, when we were living in a friends camper and running produce in southern Kentucky : being invited to share in a Thanksgiving Dinner with new family & friends. She had a family tradition, Sweet Potato Biscuits - actually she had a few traditions. That was one of the things I loved about her, her strong love of family, traditions and God.
She paid cash for everything, loved to knit and shared heart felt truth by the little light. My husband would bring in the nightly firewood, add a few logs and we would gather around and converse. Just converse and be. I never look at a sweet potato without remembering her, and our time there.
Well there was the time I had sweet potato ice cream in southern Tennessee...
Simple Sweet Potato Biscuits
5 cups flour - maybe a little less, or a little more - depending on the type of flour
4 t baking powder
1 stick butter
3 cups cooked and mashed sweet potato
Directions: blend the first three
ingredients, in a large bowl, using a pastry blend or fork. Then add the
three cups of mashed, cooled, sweet potatoes and mix well - with your
hands. Shape into biscuits, about one inch think and place on baking
sheet.
Bake at 425 for 15 to 20 minutes, or until
done. Remove the biscuits from the baking sheet and serve
slightly warm with butter and/or maple syrup. These taste the best with people gathered around.
Her biscuits will always look better than mine, and probably always taste better too, but the season of my life that they represent is pure swelling joy. So even if my pictures were snapped in haste and my recipe posts will never make a cookbook... that is alright with me. I have the memory, that bonded connection... and the ability to pass on a tradition.
