Thanksgiving Candied Sweet Potatoes Alternative

The Treasury is a generous cornucopia of recipes. I poured over every page looking for a candied sweet potatoes recipe. I scoured the index. Then I remembered yams are a Pacific island food. There’s a whole section on Hawaii and I bet something there might work.

Victory. On page 363 is a recipe for Candied Papaya that is basically candied yams–hell, Price even mentions them in the description.

One of my favorite dishes is this Candied Papaya–yes, even with the marshmallow, which horrifies me on sweet potatoes.

This is a great recipe for Thanksgiving dinner. I hate candied sweet potatoes. I bet you do too. They’re always made about eight minutes before dinner. They’re poured out of a 26 oz. can into a dish, covered with crappy tiny marshmallows and baked at a zillion degrees. Yuck.

Wait, I wanted sweet potatoes – what the hell’s a Papaya?

It’s a tropical fruit. It tastes like a yam and a Guava had a baby. You can get them in most grocery stores these days, though you may have to visit your local Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s.

Papaya makes great jams and jellies so a candied version ought to be delicious. As an alternative to candied sweet potatoes, they are perfect and I’m going to call Price and the Hana-Maui out as geniuses for it.

More infuriating techniques from Vincent Price

This recipe tells you to quarter your papaya lengthwise then put the mix and the marshmallow in the center of that canoe-shaped fruit slice. What the hell, Vincent Price? The mix and the marshmallow are going to melt and run all over the pan. That sugar is going to smoke and turn everything bitter and it’ll look like crapola.

In the recipe below, I’ve taken the liberty of improving this recipe. By smashing the papaya pulp into a baking dish, you are really bringing the Thanksgiving dinner visuals into play. It also works better period.

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