She tasted the first sweet potato pie, 'This is too grainy! Like mashed potatoes in a pie crust.' She tasted the second pie, 'This is too plain, like pumpkin pie, only less so.' She tasted the third pie 'Ahh, this is just right. Strong sweet-potato flavor, but still a nice texture. Yum. Yum. Yum.'
Ingredients
- pastry for a 9-inch pie crust: 1 piece
- sweet potatoes, boiled and: 1 pound (mashed)
- white sugar: 1 cup
- butter: 0.5 cup (melted)
- milk: 0.5 cup
- eggs: 2 piece
- vanilla extract: 1 tsp
- ground nutmeg: 0.5 tsp
- ground cinnamon: 0.5 tsp
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Stages of cooking
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Press pie crust into a 9-inch pie pan.
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Mix sweet potatoes, sugar, butter, milk, eggs, vanilla extract, nutmeg, and cinnamon together in a bowl; pour sweet potato mixture into the prepared pie crust.
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Bake in the preheated oven until a knife inserted near the center comes out clean, about 1 hour.
