I was looking through my trusted cook book when I found this recipe. I have not heard of it before or ever tasted a biscuit or cookie made from a camote/sweet potato. But the thing is I adore sweet potato, it is naturally sweet and very floury when cooked.
Sweet potatoes, in the Philippines, are predominantly cooked for desserts.
I love the camote cue which is deep fried in very hot oil and sugar. And then put in a skewer, ready to eat. The fun was to keep blowing on it to be able to take a bite from the fragrant but shockingly hot Kamote cue. I love it.
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Mashed Kamote (Sweet Potato) Biscuits
Anyway here is the recipe for the Camote Biscuits:
Ingredients:
2 cups of sifted flour (plain flour)
1 teaspoon salt
4 teaspoons baking powder
3 tablespoons shortening
( I just googled shortening as I am really a novice cook. This is what Wikipedia says: “Shortening is any fat that is solid at room temperature and used to make crumbly pastry.”
So shortenings are anything from lard, butter and margarine, that figures)
1 cup mashed Camote –
(again to mash Kamote or sweet potato, it would have been pre-boiled like the ordinary potato)
Milk or water enough to make a soft dough.
Method:
Sift all the dry ingredients in a bowl.
Add the shortening which should have been cut in small cubes. Rub the fat into the dry ingredients.
Add the mashed sweet potatoes into the mixture. Rub it all together. Use those palms and get rubbing.
Add enough milk or water to make the mixture cling together.
Do not knead like when baking a bread!
Sprinkle flour in a board and then using a rolling pin, spread the dough into the board by about 2 centimeter thickness.
Now the really fun bit where you can make the children join in. Use your different shapes biscuit cutters and get cutting.
Place these cut-out shapes on a lightly floured baking sheet in a moderately hot oven for 20 minutes or until golden brown.
It does sound like an easy enough recipe to follow and make.
Note: there is no sugar added to the recipe as sweet potatoes are naturally sweet, but I think I would add a good tablespoon to the mixture, I like my biscuits really sweet, that just me!!!
