Baked Sweet Potatoes

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 1996

For moist flesh and soft, lightly caramelized skin, oil the potatoes before baking, place them on the middle rack in a 400-degree oven, and never turn them during baking.

SERVES 4

TIME 1¼ hours

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We wanted to find the perfect baked sweet potato recipe, moist inside with a soft, caramelized skin. We pierced the potatoes’ skins with a fork and rubbed the potatoes with oil and then baked them on a foil-lined baking sheet set on the mid...

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