Thankfulness for Jesus Christ and all of my family and friends

Happy Thanksgiving from my home to yours.

I am posting a recipe I almost always make on Thanksgiving. It is Mattie's sweet potato pudding topped with marshmallows.

The recipe is from Spoonbread and Strawberry wine: Recipes and Reminiscences of a Family, by Norma Jean and Carole Darden.

The book is the history of an African American family going back to the times just after slavery and up to 1978.

My book is a paperback and so used that it is falling apart. It is full of the authors' family history, pictures and wonderful recipes. It has been republished so you can get a copy.

Mattie's sweet Potato Pudding topped with Marshmallows:

2 pounds sweet potatoes

1/2 stick of butter or margarine

3/4 to 1 1/4 cups of sugar, depending on sweetness of the potatoes

3 eggs

3/4 cup evaporated milk

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 teaspoon powdered cinnamon

3 tablespoons dark rum (optional)

1 pound marshmallows

Wash and boil sweet potatoes in their jackets until tender. Peel, then add butter or margarine while potatoes are still hot, mash with a potato masher until mixture is smooth. Add sugar, stir until well mixed. Then add eggs one at a time, beating mixture well until all three eggs have been added. Stir in evaporated milk, vanilla, cinnamon, and rum if desired. Pour into a buttered 2-quart casserole and bake in a preheated 375 oven for thirty minutes. Top with whole marshmallows and continue baking until browned.

8 servings.

Several days ago I posted on a time of revival that my husband Brad and I experienced during the Jesus movement, Hail Him the Lord of Years, and Lord of many revivals . During one of our Sunday services one of the popular singers of the day, Honeytree, sang. Here she is singing a song I think is quite appropriate for Thanksgiving, "Pioneer."

"Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God."(Heb 12:1-2)