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- Lucille's Sweet Potato Pie
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- 6 medium Sweet potatoes (use the rounder ones)
- 3 sticks of butter
- 1.5 cup sugar (2 cups if you want)
- 3 eggs ( beaten)
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp allspice
- 1/4 tsp salt
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- 2 - 9" pie crusts
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- Boil sweet potatoes in their jackets until cooked. - thin knife goes
- through. Beat the eggs. Put butter & sugar in a large bowl. Peel
- hot potatoes - with knife cut top and peel down, removing any
- stringiness from the potato with the skin, cut bottoms. Place hot
- peeled potatoes on the butter in the bowl with sugar, CRUSH together.
- Add beaten eggs. Stir in spices ( to taste).
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- Pour into two unbaked pie crusts. ( consistency of pumpkin pie mix)
- Bake at 350F until brown
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- Sweet Potato Pie
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- INGREDIENTS (Serves 3-8)
- 1 1/2 lb sweet potatoes
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 12 Tbsp unsalted butter (or use corn-oil margarine)
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- 1 pie crust, unbaked
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- Boil potatoes until tender (20-30 minutes). Drain and peel.
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- In a blender, put the potatoes, sugar and butter. Mix up a little,
- then add eggs, vanilla and nutmeg.
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- Blend ingredients together well, until mixture is very smooth.
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- Pour into unbaked pie shell and bake at 375 deg. F for 45-55 minutes
- until filling is set.
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- Gateau de Patate
- ((Sweet Potato Pie))
- Preheat oven to 425F degrees
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- For the crust:
- 1-1/2 cups flour
- 3 Tbs. sugar
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/8 tsp. cinnamon, ground ginger, ground
- allspice, nutmeg (each)
- pinch ground cloves, white pepper (each)
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 3-4 Tbs. orange juice, chilled
- 1/4 cup unsweetened grated coconut, lightly
- toasted
- For the filling:
- 2/3 cup raisins
- 1/2 cup dark rum
- 4 eggs
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 cup dark brown sugar, packed
- 3 Tbs. butter, melted
- 2-1/2 cups cooked sweet potatoes, mashed
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/4 tsp. nutmeg, ground allspice (each)
- pinch ground cloves
- 1 cup heavy cream, scalded
- 3 ripe bananas, mashed
- For the topping:
- 1 cup unsalted cashews, halved
- 3 Tbs. butter
- 1/4 cup light brown sugar, packed
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- To make crust: Sift together the flour and other dry ingredients into
- a bowl. Add the shortening, cut into bits, and blend until the
- mixture resembles meal. Add the orange juice, toss until it is
- incorporated, and form the dough into a ball. Dust it with flour,
- wrap in wax paper, and chill for 2 hours. Then roll out dough 1/8
- inch thick on a lightly floured surface and fit it into a deep
- 10-inch pie plate. Trim off excess leaving a 1-inch overhang and
- fold the overhang to make a decorative edge. Sprinkle the shell with
- the coconut, pressing it lightly into the dough, and chill, covered,
- for at least 15 minutes.
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- To make filling: Macerate the raisins in the rum. Beat the eggs with
- the white sugar until very thick, then beat in the dark brown sugar
- and melted butter and beat until well combined. Stir in the
- remaining ingredients and the rum raisin mixture.
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- Pour the filling into the pie shell and bake in the lower third of
- the oven for 30 minutes, then reduce heat to 375F, transfer the pie
- to the middle of the oven, and bake 15 minutes more, or until a knife
- inserted in the center comes out clean.
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- To make the topping: In a skillet saute the nuts in the butter for 2
- minutes, stirring constantly. Transfer them to a bowl with a slotted
- spoon and toss with the brown sugar until they are coated. Spread on
- a plate to cool. Arrange the nuts close together on top of the pie
- and run under a preheated broiler for 1-2 minutes or until the nuts
- are glazed. Cool the pie on a rack.
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- Serve with whipped cream.
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- Shortening: The recipe called for lard, but I used butter and it
- worked fine. I also used the food processor (on pulse) to make the
- dough, and it worked beautifully. But after 2 hours in the fridge
- the dough was like a rock; so either don't chill it that long or
- allow for plenty of time for it to get soft enough to roll out. (I
- did the latter perforce.)
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- I cut down the amount of dark brown sugar to about 2/3 cup and this
- was about right for my taste; you may want to do likewise (or
- contrariwise) for yours. And I substituted pecans for the cashews:
- good.
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- Also remember that if you use a pyrex pie plate the oven temperatures
- should be 25F lower than specified here (I forgot and it cost me the
- decorative edge of the crust).
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- Title: Sweet Potato Pie
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- 3 ea large sweet potatoes
- 2 ea Eggs, separated
- 1/4 t nutmeg
- 1/4 t salt
- 2 T brown sugar
- 1 ea Prepared pie crust
- 2 T powdered sugar
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- Boil sweet potatoes until tender. Peel and mash.
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Beat in egg yolks, nutmeg, salt, and brown
- sugar, then stir until potatoes are creamy. Spoon sweet potatoes into pie
- crust and bake for 25 minutes, until crust is golden. Cool.
- Beat egg whites with powdered sugar until stiff. Spread meringue over top
- of pie, and bake at 300 degrees until meringue is lightly browned. Serve hot.
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- Sweet Potato Pie
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- 3/4 c. lightly packed light brown sugar
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp. nutmeg
- 2 Tb.molasses
- 1 1/2 c. mashed cooked sweet potatoes (3-4 large potatoes)
- 2/3 c. half and half
- 2 eggs, separated
- 6 Tb. dry sherry
- 1 partially baked 9" pie shell
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- Mix sugar, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg. Add molasses and sweet potatoes;
- beat well. Stir in half and half, egg yolks, and sherry. Beat the
- whites till stiff, fold in, and pour into partially baked pie shell.
- Put in a preheated 425 degree oven. Reduce heat to 375 and bake about
- 35 min., until pie is browned and set in the middle. Serve warm or
- cold with whipped cream.
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