Sweet Potatoes

Take six good sized sweet potatoes and boil until nearly done. Then
peel them and roll in melted butter, lay in a buttered baking pan.
Sprinkle with brown sugar and bake until done.

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Chili Beans

Take four cups of red beans, one onion, four cloves of garlic, cover
with water and cook all day in a covered saucepan. Add a little water
from time to time if too dry. Cook slowly four red peppers and five
black peppers with seeds out, three black peppers with seeds, four
cloves of garlic, four onions with the hearts taken out, salt, and
one cup of beef stock. Rub through a sieve. Put in a saucepan four
tablespoonfuls of marrow. When very hot add the beans and then the
sauce.

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To Boil Rice

Have plenty of salted water, with the juice of a lime in it. When
boiling add rice that has been washed in three waters. Boil fast for
sixteen minutes. Try a grain, and if done dash in a glass of cold
water. Drain at once through a colander. Cover with a cloth and let
stand by the fire for a few minutes, shaking up the colander once or
twice. This will make every grain separate.