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Preheat oven to 325.
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Grease a glass baking dish.
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Layer the bottom with the sliced yams.
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Spread some melted butter across the yams with a pastry brush till they are wet.
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Top the yams with with nutmeg, cinnamon, brown sugar, granulated sugar, salt.
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Repeat layers till you have 4 layers.
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Once your layers are complete mix together more melted butter, nutmeg, cinnamon, brown sugar, granulated sugar, molasses, and vanilla extract and pour over the completed layers.
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Cover the dish with foil and place in the middle of the oven to bake for 30-45.
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Remove dish from oven pour off 1/2 grease/syrup mix reserving for later use.
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Do not cover the dish back up just place dish back in oven.
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While the dish is back in the oven taste the grease/syrup mix and add more nutmeg, cinnamon, brown sugar, granulated sugar, and molasses to taste.
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Bobby says do not add anymore vanilla extract.
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Now remove the dish again and pour the grease/syrup back over the yams (Bobby said you will not need all the grease/syrup).
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Return the dish back to the oven and bake another 20 minutes.
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Again remove the dish and drain off 1/2 the grease/syrup mix.
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Return dish to the oven, mix the syrup pour over yams and bake 10-15 minutes.
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Check with a fork and if the yams are fork tender turn the oven down to 150-200.
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Again add more nutmeg, cinnamon, brown sugar, granulated sugar, and molasses to taste.
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Pour the grease/syrup back over the yams (Bobby says you will not need all of the grease/syrup so do not fill this to the top).
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Turn off the oven and leave the dish in the oven for 10-15 minutes.
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Bobby says if there's to much grease/syrup at this point pour it off and discard.
