about forty minutes. If they are small, make them into--


Creamed Sweet Potatoes

Boil the potatoes, skin them, and cut them up in small slices.
Make a cup of cream sauce, mix with them, and put them in the oven
for half an hour.


Scalloped Sweet Potatoes

Boil six potatoes in well-salted water till they are tender; skin them,
slice them thin, and put a layer of them in a buttered baking-dish;
sprinkle with brown sugar, and put on more potatoes and more sugar
till the dish is full. Bake for three-quarters of an hour.


Beets

Wash the beets but do not peel them. Boil them gently for
three-quarters of an hour, or till they can be pierced easily
with a straw. Then skin them and slice in a hot dish, dusting
each layer with a little salt, pepper, and melted butter. Those
which are left over may have a little vinegar poured over them,
to make them into pickles for luncheon.

Once Margaret made something very nice by a recipe her Pretty Aunt
put in her book. It was called--