Heat ingredients together until margarine melts. In a medium sized bowl, mix half cup dark brown sugar, one large six ounce box orange jello, one stick light margarine, half cup Karo syrup (dark), one tablespoon cinnamon, one tablespoon vanilla, and one cup chopped pecans. Drain the potatoes and place in 13X9X2 inch baking pan or dish. If you use sweet fresh potatoes, cut them into one inch chunks and boil in water until you can stick a knife through them.
Peel six or seven large sweet potatoes or use two large cans of potatoes. You can use fresh or canned sweet potatoes. This is a simple recipe for sweet and sappy candied yams. Since this seems to be “sweet potato day” in the Garden Plot and also Thanksgiving Day less than two weeks away, we devote a little more attention to the sweet potato. It was a hill of soil lined with long leaf pine straw, bushels of potatoes, more pine straw, and hilled up with some more soil, with a stove pipe to gain access to the hill. The potato “hill” was so simple but practical. They stored them in “potato hills” to have sweet potatoes all winter long. My father and grandma raised plenty of sweet potatoes every year. We grew up in northeastern North Carolina and Northampton County has its share of coastal loam and they also produce plenty of hefty sweet potatoes. The coastal loamy soil of southeastern North Carolina in the Tabor city area makes itself North Carolina’s sweet potato capital. October is the season of the pumpkin, but November can be called the season of sweet potato especially in North Carolina. The leaves are now crisp which makes them easy to vacuum and blow to the garden area and composite bin and pile. The lawn looks even more brown with the coating of remaining leaves falling from trees. The autumn lawn has a new color as the frosts of November have given the lawn many coats of crystal white and the lawn has a tan and brown tint as the result.
It is time to enjoy the best of seasons and prepare our hearts and minds for the season of harvest and Thanksgiving. Frosts are heavier and linger longer each morning. The nights of November are so calm you can almost hear the remaining leaves on the trees touch the lawn. Nature is in a slowdown cycle as the only green in the forests and woodlands shine through in the holly, cedar, and pine trees. Nap time has visited the flower beds and pansies have become flowers of the month of November. We love the calm of early November as the garden turns from mid summer mode to the vegetable crops of autumn and winter.
Thanksgiving is still nearly two weeks from now and we can enjoy the calm before the upcoming holiday season begins.
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