{"id":465,"date":"2001-01-01T20:54:00","date_gmt":"2001-01-01T20:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pauldearing.com\/?p=465"},"modified":"2010-12-13T05:25:43","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T05:25:43","slug":"465","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pauldearing.com\/?p=465","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Yams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>3 pounds (about 6 medium sized) red-skinned sweet potatoes (yams)<br \/>1\/2 cup (packed) golden brown sugar<br \/>1\/4 cup (1\/2 stick) butter, room temperature<br \/>1 Tbsp lemon juice<br \/>2 teaspoons grated orange peel<br \/>3\/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon<br \/>3\/4 teaspoon ground allspice<br \/>3\/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong> Position rack in center of oven; preheat to 400&deg;F. Pierce sweet potatoes in several places with fork; place on rimmed baking sheet. Bake until tender when pierced with fork, about 55 minutes. Cool slightly.<br \/><strong>2<\/strong> Cut the sweet potatoes in half. Scoop out pulp into large bowl; discard peel. Add brown sugar, butter, lemon juice, grated orange peel, ground cinnamon, allspice, and nutmeg to sweet potato pulp. Using an electric mixer, beat until mixture is smooth; season with salt and pepper. <br \/>Can be made a day ahead.&nbsp; To ease Thanksgiving day kitchen congestion, I made this early and refrigerated it until the turkey was resting.&nbsp; Put marshmallows on top and bake at 400&deg; for 20 minutes or until marshmallows are the color you like. <\/p>\n<p><span>This came from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elise.com\/recipes\/about.php\" target=\"_self\">&ldquo;Simply Recipes&rdquo;.<\/a>&nbsp; Our modification was to add marshmallows before baking.&nbsp; YUM!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 pounds (about 6 medium sized) red-skinned sweet potatoes (yams)1\/2 cup (packed) golden brown sugar1\/4 cup (1\/2 stick) butter, room temperature1 Tbsp lemon juice2 teaspoons grated orange peel3\/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon3\/4 teaspoon ground allspice3\/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg &nbsp; 1 Position rack in center of oven; preheat to 400&deg;F. Pierce sweet potatoes in several places with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sides"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pauldearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pauldearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pauldearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pauldearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pauldearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pauldearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":672,"href":"https:\/\/pauldearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pauldearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pauldearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pauldearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}