Potato candy or Needhams

[pumba]

3/4 cup mashed potatoes
1 lg. pkg. coconut
2 tsp. vanilla
2 lbs confectionery sugar.
1 stick oleo............
Melt butter in double boiler, add cooked potatoes and salt. Mix this part in top of double boiler. Add Confectioners sugar and coconut and mix well.....Pour into greased cookie sheet....Store in refrigerator over night.....cut into squares.....dip in chocolate mixture that follows.....makes around 65 candies.....

Chocolate dip
One large pkg chocolate bits...
4 squares semisweet chocolate....
1.2 cake paraffin wax....

Melt this all together and stir well.....

Dip and let them harded and enjoy....these are a must at most households in our area.....and also I go and get these at a candy store that makes them around xmas.........hope you enjoy it

 

[chessie]

When I was growing up, a lady from my church used to make these. She shaped them like footballs and rolled them in cinnamon. She called them sweet potatoes. I used to look forward to them every year.

Thanks for the recipe. I think I will have to try them myself this year.

Chessie