Native Gift Of Gluten Free Nutrition

If you want to eat like the Native Americans did when the Pilgrims met them at Plymouth Rock, then you need to try eating a sweet potato. By historical account, the Indians met the Pilgrims and they feasted on them boiled along with foods made from corn known as maize.

The Cherokee Indians gathered them from wild potato fields and it is said that the Spaniards shipped them by the boatloads to Henry the VIII. The king had an appetite for them and his favorite was sweet potato pie laced heavily with sugar and spices.


In the years of the Civil War and the period after, sweet potatoes were the only thing that kept many poor Southerners, black and white, alive. This is when they became a staple of the diet and smost of the traditional recipes have remained the same.

Packing one of the most nutritious punches of any vegetable, sweet potato vitamins include generous amounts of riboflavin, thiamine, iron, and dietary fiber. Besides all that, they are low in sodium and cholesterol free. Harvested only in the "R" months of September, October, and November, they typically make up dishes that surround the Thanksgiving meals.

The following is a sweet potato dish that can also be served as dessert because it originated as a cross between pie and baked candied sweet potato casserole.




Sweet Potato Souffle

4 medium organic sweet potatoes

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

1 cup of cane sugar

2 eggs

1/2 cup of condensed milk



1/2 cup of organic butter

1 teaspoon cinnamon



Topping

1 cup brown cane sugar

1 cup of chopped pecans

1/2 cup of organic butter

1/4 cup gluten free all purpose flour

1/2 tsp of baking powder

Boil potatoes with skin on until tender. Peel and mash. Add sugar, cinnamon, 1/2 cup butter and milk. Beat eggs well and add to mixture. Add vanilla. Pour into buttered 8x8' Pyrex dish.

Mix up topping and spread mixture over top. Bake at 350 for 30 - 45 minutes.

Some people use marshmallows on top instead of topping in which case you add them when the souffle is almost done and brown the marshmallows slightly on top.