Food & Fun Recipes

Sweet Potato Biscuits

Ingredients (12-16 biscuits)

• 2 cups flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup mashed sweet potatoes (from 1-2 cooked sweet potatoes)
• 2 tablespoons firmly packed brown sugar
• ½ cup butter or shortening, melted
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• ¾ cup buttermilk

Instruction

1. Heat oven to 425 degrees. Combine flour, baking powder and salt in a large bowl.
2. Combine sweet potato, sugar and butter or shortening until well blended and fluffy.
3. Dissolve baking soda in buttermilk. Stir buttermilk and sweet potato mixture alternately into dry ingredients until they are just combined. (Do not overmix.)
4. Roll or pat dough ½ inch thick on floured counter or pastry board. Cut with floured round cutter or drinking glass. Please on ungreased baking sheet. Bake for 15-20 minutes.

The word biscuit is from the Latin phrase biscuctus which means baked (bis) twice (cuctus).