Sure, holiday dinners are big on main courses like herb-roasted turkey and perfect prime rib, but the real stars of the holiday food spread might just be the sweet desserts. After all, there’s a ...

Boil one pound of sweet potatoes very tender, rub them while hot through a colander, add six eggs, well beaten, three quarts of pound of powdered sugar, three quarters of butter, and some grated ...

The 1827 recipe comes from Virginia’s first published cookbook. Sweet potatoes offer fiber, antioxidants and holiday flavor. Frank Clark, the master of historic foodways at the Colonial Williamsburg ...

When you think of sweet potatoes, dessert probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind — at least it wasn’t for me. But once I discovered how naturally sweet and creamy they become when baked, I ...

We cut way down on the sugar and butter in this recipe from "Creole Cookery." And it was delicious. Susan Poag/The Times-PicayuneA sweet potato cooked in the coals is as delicious in 2011 as it was in ...