TWICE BAKED SWEET POTATO

Now that you know how to bake a sweet potato in a wood fire, here is how you can make that hot, steamy baked sweet potato even better! 

1 medium-sized sweet potato
1/4 cup crushed pineapple - do not drain
2 T. packed brown sugar
1 tsp. melted butter
1 T. chopped walnuts
2 pinches cinnamon
small marshmallows
shortening - small amount
3-cup mini Dutch Oven (3/4 quart)

{Keep in mind, ALL of these ingredients can be varied to your personal taste.}
Remove peel from baked sweet potato. In a medium-sized bowl, mash sweet potato with a fork, leaving it slightly lumpy.

Measure out 1 rounded cup of the mashed sweet potato into another bowl. (refrigerate remaining sweet potato, if any, for a later use).

Add to the measured, mashed sweet potato, the pineapple, brown sugar, butter, walnuts, and cinnamon.
Stir together until thoroughly blended.

Lightly grease the inside of your mini Dutch Oven. Press all of the sweet potato mixture into the mini Dutch Oven. Place lid on top.

Wood Stove: Inside your wood stove, push the coals back away from one corner. Set the filled Dutch Oven in that corner. Coals can be close to it, but not touching. Bake, turning the oven around occasionally, until the sweet potato mixture is thoroughly hot through.
      Remove lid (lid will be extremely hot!) and top the sweet potato mixture with mini marshmallows. Let bake a little bit longer, uncovered, until the marshmallows puff up and are golden brown.  Serve while hot.

Camp Fire: With your camp or back packing shovel, rake out a clear area in the middle of the coals, large enough to set the filled Dutch Oven. Set your Dutch Oven in that cleared out space. Make sure coals are as close to the oven as possible, without touching the oven. Shovel a few coals into the indented lid of the Dutch Oven.
    Let cook until the sweet potatoes are thoroughly hot through. Carefully scrape the coals off of the lid with your shovel and remove lid (use heat safe mitts or gloves!). While the Dutch Oven is still surrounded by coals, top the sweet potato mixture with the mini marshmallows. Let it continue to cook, uncovered, until the marshmallows are puffed and golden brown. Serve hot!