The nice southern lady next door to my mother used to make these for me.
They are AMAZING:

Sweet Potato Jacks

Filling:
Boil 4 sweet potatoes until "mushy."
Rinse in cold water
Peel or skin potatoes, putting each potato in a large bowl
Add ½ stick (non-dairy) margarine
Add ½ tsp salt
Add 1 ¾ cups sugar
Add 2 tbs flour
Add 1 tsp vanilla
Add 2 tbs lemon juice

Crust:
2 cups flour
1 tsp salt
½ tsp baking powder
4 tbs crisco shortening
¾ cup cold water

Mix ingredients together, flour board, put on ½ bowl of dough, roll out
until thin.  Put filling in.  Fold over and crimp edge with fork.  Make
about as big as your hand.  Fry, cooking with crisco (not oil).  Amount has
to be enough to come over the edge of the jack, or else edge will be raw.


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