Are treated and served like sweet potatoes.

Sugar Potato Or Candied Yams

Parboil, peel and cut in quarter inch slices. Put the slices into a heavy syrup made in the proportion of one cup white sugar to one-quarter cup water, and one tea-spoon butter. Simmer gently for an hour, then let the syrup boil away till it is almost dry. Serve with meats.

Rice, Steamed

Pour two cups of boiling water on one cup well washed rice, and one level teaspoon of salt. Cook in double boiler thirty minutes, or till soft. If too dry at the end of twenty minutes add a little more boiling water.

Rice, Boiled

Have ready four quarts of boiling salted water. Throw in one cup rice and let boil fast, uncovered, until the kernels open. Drain in a colander, cover with cloth, keep warm twenty minutes, shake up light three times.

Curried Rice

Mix one teaspoon curry powder with one cup gravy or white sauce and pour over rice boiled as above. Good with veal or mutton in any style.