Ingredients:
1 possum, cleaned and cut up in bite-size pieces
a tad over a pinch about 1/2 teaspoon salt
a pinch of or 1/4 teaspoon coarse black pepper
5-6, depending on the size, sweet potatoes, warshed and cut up in chunks
about a handful or a 1/2 cup white granulated sugar
another handful or 1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup lard/oleo, or crisco/ margerine
pert close to a gallon of water, more if needed
Marshmellows added to the top of the taters make it real purty!
Preheat Oven to 350 degrees
Directions:
Skin and wash possum.
Put possum in a large sauce pot/kettle.
Cover with water.
Add salt and pepper.
Cover pot and steam until possum is tender. Aprox. 1 hour.
Save 2 cups of juice.
Place possum in center of roaster and place sweet taters evenly around the possum.
Sprinkle with white and brown sugars over taters.
Dab the oleo on top of the sugars evenly.
Pour the 2 cups of juice over everything.
Bake until taters are fork tender and light brown, the juices from the possum should have cooked away.
Aprox. 45 minutes
Add marshmellows to the top after removing from ven or add 5 minutes before removing from oven!
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