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Escalloped Sweet Potatoes

Twelve cold boiled sweet potatoes; one-third cup of butter; one-fourth cup of boiling water; one teaspoon of salt; one-fourth teaspoon of pepper and three teaspoons of sugar. Slice the potato, and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Butter a large shallow dish and spread the potato in it, making a layer not more than an inch thick. Melt the butter in the water, and add the sugar. Sprinkle one-fourth of this liquid over the potato, and set the latter in a hot oven. In ten minutes sprinkle another one-fourth of the liquid over the potatoes, and repeat this twice more at intervals of ten minutes. After the last sprinkling, bake ten minutes (making forty in all), and serve hot.