Ham Cakes with Pineapple and Sweet Potato

A three-part dish, perhaps a bit too sweet, but a classic flavor combination presented in a new way.

OK, this is an old book, so perhaps this is an old way to present this threesome of ham, pineapple, and sweet potato. But I've never made cakes of ham - ham, panko, mustard, and eggs. The recipe says make 6 patties - mine were rather thin. I was pleased that they sauteed up crispy on the outside, tender inside, and they hung together OK! Note that instead of the 5 tablespoons of bacon grease, I sauteed these in about 1 tsp butter.

Pineapple slices are sauteed (I used canned), and sweet potatoes are first boiled till done, then peeled, halved, and caramelized with a bit of brown sugar and ground cloves.

At the end the threesome are stacked, basted with a bit of the pinapple juice, and baked.

A lovely aroma greeted 13 daughter when she returned from the gym, and everyone seemed rather happy to tuck into these yummy stacks.

Although its the most worn of all my cookbooks, I do not tend to turn to joy of cooking. Eat Your Books helped me to find this recipe, and holding this book with stained pages and a broken spine is like finding an old friend.