This recipe is a very close cousin to my wife's wrongly named sweet potato recipe in which we use yams and not sweet potato. Published in 1827 and written by Mary Rudolph, the Virginia Housewife or Methodical Cook is 225 pages long and contains over…
This casually racist trade journal from the Barrett company was created in an effort to sell more yams and sweet potatoes. It contains one of the first recipes to use marshmallows with yams. The first recipe to put these two together was published…