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Southern Sweet Potato Pie
Baked sweet potatoes whipped hot with butter, sugar, and nutmeg, poured into an all-butter shell and set into a pie lighter than pumpkin.
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Ingredients
serves 8From the garden
- 2 lb sweet potatoes, scrubbed, skins left on · about 3 medium roots, to yield 2 cups of mash
From the pantry
- 1¼ cups all-purpose flour · for the crust, plus more for rolling
- 12 tbsp butter, 8 cold and cubed, 4 softened · the cold butter is for the crust, the softened for the filling
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- ¼ cup brown sugar · packed
- 1 tsp ground nutmeg
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- 3 eggs, lightly beaten
- ½ cup whole milk · evaporated milk is the more traditional choice
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- ¾ tsp salt · half for the crust, half for the filling