Stop boiling sweet potatoes in water! This Appalachian trick makes them melt like butter

🔗 Save $3,000 A Year the Mountain Way. Get the Full Manual 👉 https://www.arliecaudill.com Most folks were taught to boil sweet potatoes. Boiling washes the flavor out into the pot and leaves them stringy and wet. When I was a boy, my Mamaw baked hers slow in the ash at the edge of her coal grate. I tried to hurry them into the hot coals once, and I ate a burnt, raw potato for it. Then she dug hers out soft and sweet as a stack cake, with nothing added. She taught me that the slow part is what makes a sweet potato good. In this one I show you how Ruby and I still cook them in our kitchen up Rockhouse Creek. I go through how to pick them and wash them, then baking them whole, steaming them, and the mashed pan we take to church dinners. I also tell you where this works, where it does not, and one warning about a spoiled sweet potato that can make you sick. It costs about six dollars to feed a family of six. Once you learn it, you do not need a can, a bag, or a machine on the counter. Come tell me how yours turned out, what county you are in, and how old your house is. #SweetPotatoes #AppalachianCooking #OldWays #MountainCooking #ScratchCooking #Homestead #EasternKentucky #appalachia