Yam Delight

This recipe came from the Wozniaks, I am assuming the recipes collected for Mom when we moved from Ohio. I'm pretty sure she never made it.  sorry, no picture, it was pretty gross looking.

Yam Delight

16 oz canned yams cut into bite sized pieces
16 oz chunky style applesauce
1 t cinnamon
1/3 c butter/margarine
3/4 c brown sugar
4 T flour
3/4 c instant rolled oats
1 c chopped walnuts (I replaced with more oats)

Spread half of applesauce in casserole dish.  Sprinkle with 1/2 t cinnamon.  In bowl, mix together brown sugar, flour, nuts, and oats with butter to make topping.  Spoon 3 tablespoons mixture over applesauce.  Evenly arrange yams on top.  Spread applesauce over yams.  Sprinkle with remaining 1/2 t cinnamon.  Sprinkle remaining oat mixture evenly over top.

Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.  Serve as side dish or with ice cream.

I definitely recommend serving as a dessert, not a side dish like I did; it was a dessert in every sense of the word.  We all liked it and it was even well enough masked in applesauce and sugar to get the little tike to eat sweet potatoes, which she has recently been avoiding like the plague.   I don't know if we'll have it ever again, but it was worth making.