Sweet Potatoes and Apples

Try this recipe with your favorite baking apple. This dish is delicious as a side with ham or turkey.

Serves 12

Cooking time: 4–5 hours
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Attention: Minimal
Pot size: 3–5 quarts

Ingredients

  • 6 sweet potatoes
  • 2 apples
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon mace
  • ½ cup butter
  1. Peel the potatoes and the apples. Thinly slice the potatoes; core and slice the apples. Mix the sugar, salt, and mace together.

  2. Use half of the butter to grease the slow cooker, then assemble layers: potatoes (at the bottom), apples, brown sugar mixture, dabs of butter. Repeat.

  3. Cover and heat on a low setting for 4 to 5 hours.

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