Article: Kitchen Detective: Keep it simple when making sweet potato casserole

Sweet potato casserole sounds like a blue-ribbon idea, but when we turned to the Internet to find recipes we found that they included ingredients such as chipped beef, pork, apples, candy, marshmallows, nuts, and many kinds of booze.

It turns out that this recipe is a holiday dumping ground tailor- made for home cooks who wish to abandon sensible culinary virtues for wild improvisation.

Not apt to throw culinary caution to the winds, we opted to take a more measured approach in an effort to produce a simple and satisfying sweet potato casserole. With that in mind, we began by testing whether or not the potatoes would have to be pre-cooked. Indeed, pre-cooked potatoes were sweeter and ...

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