Recipe - Tex Taters Steamed Tea Bread

2 cup Flour
One fourth cup Instant tea granules
2 teaspoon Baking powder
1/3 cup Vegetable oil
One half teaspoon Baking soda
1 cup Buttermilk
One half teaspoon Salt
2 cup Raw sweet potatoes; grated
1 Egg; beaten
Three fourths cup Pecans; chopped
One half cup Sugar

ORANGE CREAM CHEESE FROSTING
6 ounce Cream cheese
2 teaspoon Orange juice
1 One half teaspoon Orange rind; grated
2 tablespoon Chopped walnuts

Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt together; set aside.
Combine egg, sugar, tea granules, oil and buttermilk and mix well. Make a
well in center of dry ingredients and gently stir in egg mixture. Add sweet
potatoes and pecans. Pour mixture into two (1 lb.) coffee cans. Cover with
aluminum foil and secure with heavy duty rubber bands. Set containers on
rack in heavy duty pot and fill half of pot with boiling water. Return to a
gentle boil. Cover pot and steam for 1 hour and 30 minutes, adding more
water if necessary. Gently remove bread from cans and cool.

Spread with orange cream cheese.

FROSTING: Beat cream cheese until smooth. Add orange rind and orange juice
and blend well. Stir in pecans or walnuts

The Sweet Potato Cafe : Links to yam recipes on the internet run by Pamela
S. Weston Wstnhouse@aol.com at http://members.aol.com/SPVine/cafe4.htm
Hanneman/Buster/MasterCook

Notes: http://members.aol.com/TexTater/texas.html

Recipe by: Texas Sweet Potato Council

Posted to MCRecipe Digest by KitPATh phannema@wizard.ucr.edu on Mar 25,
1998