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Baked yams with whiskey-soaked craisins, ricotta and pecans

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  • 1–2 cup whiskey
  • 1 cup craisins
  • 4–5 tbsp ricotta cheese
  • ½ cup toasted pecans
  • 1½ stick butter
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • ½ cup raw or Demura sugar
  • 1 tbsp cinnamon
  • 1½ tsp freshly grated nutmeg
Combine the butter, brown sugar, raw sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg.
  • butter
  • 3 whole yams
  • kosher salt
Put the peeled, sliced yams in a generously buttered casserole with a generous pinch of kosher salt and the sugar-butter mixture; mix.
Cover and bake at 375F for about 30 minutes.
Mix and return uncovered for another 15 to 20 minutes.
Pour boiling whiskey over the craisins and let them soak until the sweet potatoes come out.
  • honey
Top with ricotta, the whiskey-soaked craisins and toasted pecans; optionally drizzle with honey.