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Sweet Potato Pudding
Boil or bake the potatoes; rub them through a sieve. Three pints of milk; thirteen eggs; three pounds of potato; a little butter; nutmeg, cinnamon, and mace; a tea-spoonful salt. This pudding may be made in a less expensive manner, as pumpkin pies. It is necessary to make them a little thicker with potato, as pumpkin swells more.
-American Matron 1851
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