Baked Filled Sweet Potatoes

Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 55 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 6 medium yams
• 1 tablespoon shortening
• 12 lamb sausage links
• 1/2 cup hot orange juice
• 3 tablespoons butter or 3 tablespoons margarine
• 2 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon grated orange peel
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

Recipe

• 1 rub potato skins with shortening.
• 2 bake in a 450 oven for 45-60 minutes.
• 3 while potatoes are baking, pan broil lamb sausage links.
• 4 drain on paper towels and keep warm.
• 5 when sweet potatoes are tender, cut each potato in half lengthwise.
• 6 scoop out inside of the potato without breaking skin.
• 7 mash or rice potato.
• 8 whip in hot orange juice, butter, brown sugar, orange peel, salt and nutmeg.
• 9 pile mixture lightly into potato shells.
• 10 top each with 2 sausage links.
• 11 bake in a 350 oven 8-10 minutes longer, or until potatoes are reheated and browned lightly.