Delicious. I served it for Thanksgiving and it was requested again for Christmas. First time I cut the potatoes fairly thin and partially steamed. Next time I cut in chunks and par boiled. Prefer the latter. I also added dried cherries instead of raisins.

As other reviewers suggested I cooked my sweet potatoes first. This was a huge hit on Thanksgiving! The tangy apples compliment the nutty sweet potatoes.

I've made this recipe for three holiday seasons running. It is FABULOUS! I use golden raisins just because they are fatter, sweeter and much prettier in this dish.

My family requests this dish every time we get together for the holidays. I like to double the brown sugar sauce that is poured over the dish. YUM!

Before I found this recipe, several reviewers had already mentioned pre-cooking the sweet potatoes and increasing the sauce so that's what I did the first time I made it. Excellent!

Well I should have read the reviews. I think you could avoid boiling potatoes if you: use three apples and two potatoes; chop it all fairly finely; add extra water (maybe 3/4 or 1 full cup); and leave the lid on the WHOLE time, so you get steam action going. The potatoes on the top weren't soft enough, but the bottom was good, sweet and generally yummy. After a night in the fridge it all tasted better, though, and more bits had softened. Since it does taste good cold, it could be a good make-the-night-before dish and then the hardness wouldn't be much of an issue.

This is very yummy. I sliced the potatoes like chips and cooked them in the microwave to make them soft first. YOU HAVE TO DO THIS! I have made this before w/out doing this step first and it is never ever done in less than 1 hour because of the sweet potatoes taking forever to cook.

A 2004 and 2005 Thanksgiving potluck hit with requests for recipes. Definitely boil sweet potatoes and double the sauce recipe. I used Golden Raisins this year, but did not double the amount, just because many people don't like raisins. I'm interested in trying the craisins next time. I used a fruit preservative to help keep the apples from browing as they are sliced and increased the amount of apple to almost 3 apples. Also followed the recommendation to use 1 part flour, 2 parts water for the sauce thickener. Thanks for the great recipe and suggestions!

This was good but I thought it tasted more like a dessert than a side dish. It reminded me of apple crisp. I made this at Christmas so to avoid having to put it in the oven with the turkey I cooked it in the microwave. It took about 10 minutes on high power. I also sliced the sweet potatoes instead of cubing them.

Really good. You MUST cook the yams first, and it's a good idea to double the sauce. A keeper.

I made this for the first time to take to a potluck of mostly strangers, and everyone really liked it- several requests for the recipe. I baked mine at 375 for the last 20 minutes, and then went 10 mmore minutes uncovered at the end. I also did 50/50 raisins and "craisins"-I don't know if this is a side or a dessert (warm with a scoop of ice cream??), but it is perfect for either!

Made this last Thanksgiving and just had a call requesting it again this year! I found the sweet potatoes and apples I purchased were HUGE! - so I doubled the rest of the recipee and used 2 casserole dishes. Before placing in oven I microwaved each dish 5 minutes then repeated another 5 minutes(alternating dishes). This helped with the complaint I read a few reviewers had with the potatoes not cooking through - and I only needed to cook them in the oven for 20 minutes total after that. It was a HIT!

I made it exactly as indicated and the sweet potatoes did not cook all the way. If I had boiled them first, I think it would have turned out much better. The apples were good and the sauce was too.

Everyone really enjoyed this on Thanksgiving!

Great alternative to the traditional yams and marshmallow recipe. I have a few suggestions though. First, take the other reviewers advice and boil the sweet potatoes first since the apples do finish much quicker. The sweet potatoes did take extra time to cook, longer than the stated time. Second, double up on the brown sugar and flour mixture. The casserole will be much sweeter and taste much better. Third, add more apples to the mixture. Otherwise, you hardly taste them. Furthermore, this is a great recipe and with the changes, I will be making this again!

Very good as is, the only thing that I added was after this had finished cooking and was cooling down, I dotted butter over the top and added crushed pecans.