Glazed Spam and Sweet Potatoes Recipe #263724
This wacky recipe was in my grandmother's recipe file. I'll have to try it sometime when I feel like doing something different with my Spam...
1½ hours | 20 min prep
SERVES 4
- 4 medium sweet potatoes, peeled and quartered
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/3 cup water
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 2 tablespoons vinegar
- 1 dash worcestershire sauce
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1/2 cup grape jelly
- 1/4 teaspoon clove
- 1/4 cup milk, warmed
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 (12 ounce) can Spam
- 12 miniature marshmallows
- Boil sweet potatoes for 30 minutes or until cooked; drain.
- Meanwhile, make raisin sauce. Mix brown sugar, water, raisins, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, salt, 1 tbsp butter, jelly, and cloves in a saucepan. Boil for 7 minutes.
- Mash sweet potatoes with milk and 1 tbsp butter. Season with salt and pepper.
- Score top of Spam loaf in diamond pattern. Place in a shallow baking dish and spoon the sweet potatoes around it.
- Bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes, basting loaf several times with raisin sauce.
- In the last five minutes of cooking, arrange marshmallows on sweet potatoes and allow to brown.
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