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Sweet Potato Pie

ByLizzy Mae Early
The Texas Story:
           
            My brother Paul informed me that since we are in Texas for Thanksgiving this year, it’s not a matter of if I make sweet potato pie, it’s a matter of how many sweet potato pies I make. 
           
            I have never made sweet potato pie or even had it before.  So I headed to the Internet and started comparing recipes to decide what to do.  I was sort of skeptical, but I guess, being in Texas, there was no way around it.  I HAD to make the pie.
            So I started.  Then got really frustrated that I didn’t have a good mixer because there were still clumps in the mixture.  Then got so fed up I just threw it all in the blender.  Then I tasted it.  And wow, it was a beautiful thing.  The blender was the best thing that happened to this recipe. 
            The pie has a beautiful color and is very light.  Perhaps next year I’ll throw on a pecan topping like I did for my pumpkin pie this year. 
Sweet Potato Pie
2 cups sweet potatoes
½ cup butter, softened
1 cup white sugar
½ cup condensed milk
2 eggs
¾ teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 unbaked piecrust
Directions:
1.     Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2.    Peel, then boil sweet potatoes for 40-50 minutes or until soft. 
3.    In a bowl, mix hot sweet potatoes, butter, sugar, and milk. Then add eggs while mixing to not let the eggs curdle.  Add nutmeg, cinnamon and vanilla.
4.    Pour into a blender and puree.
5.    Pour into unbaked piecrust.
6.   Bake for 45-60 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.  The pie will rise and then fall as it cools.  (Eat it with whip cream and it’s even better.)
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  1. I looked some of your recipes from beginning and I love sweet potatos. I might want to make this for thanksgiving, this year. The problem is I do not have blender. I only have electric hand mixer. Does it work? Also how big is your pie? Was that 9 inch cycle?

  3. You put “condensed” milk in the recipe. Do you mean sweetened condensed or evaporated milk?

  7. One tip for you: Roasting the sweet potatoes instead of boiling really brings out the flavor

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