Sweet Potato Pie with Madi
annie1992
8 years ago
Elery's family is from Tennessee so on Thanksgiving he wanted cornbread stuffing and sweet potato pie. I had only made sweet potato pie once, but I was game. And, surprise, I had help!
You must carefully roll the dough, it's more fun than Play Doh!
It's hard to get in the pan, but we did it. Time to crimp the crust, Grandma showed me how....
Bud helped me make the cheesecake part. Grandma says that cream cheese filling isn't traditional, but it's good, and PaPaw Elery agreed. We got to use the stick blender and Bud liked that a LOT.
We put the cream cheese stuff on top of the sweet potato stuff and swirled it all around with a spoon. That was fun.
Since I'm only 3, Grandma won't let me touch the oven, so she baked it, and we ate it for Thanksgiving dinner. Mom and Dad were proud of me, so we took a picture of my whole family with my pie.
PaPaw Elery says it's the best pie he ever ate!
My great-grandma said it was too, and she had a piece of that AND a piece of the chocolate raspberry pie.
Grandma let me help with that too, but we ran out of raspberry stuff before I was done making pretty designs on the top. Great-Grandma said it was delicious anyway.
Making pie is fun, and I got to eat chocolate cookie crumbs from that chocolate one too!
Madi and Annie
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Comments (44)ChickenCoupe, I would say that the orange looking small sweet potatoes were probably the Beauregard, though I am not an expert, I have never seen any white looking ones. Of course I bought the one's that I raised at the grocery store to make slips so do not know what kind they are for sure. I have read post that state they didn't like the Beauregards or that they were not as sweet as other kinds. But I have read that the Beauregards are famous for they're turn out. But if they are not sweet enough a little sugar can help that. A little dark brown sugar or molasses can is fantastic. I believe sometimes the soil has something to do with the way things taste. I know it does with watermelon & cantaloupe, as they will seem to taste sweeter if raised on sandy land than on dirt natured soil. Sweet potatoes may be the same way. I think onions taste different on different types of soil as some are more stronger tasting on some soils than others. But like I said that is just my opinion. And it doesn't count for much....See MoreNYTimes: roasted sweet potato pie/flan
Comments (3)My favorite sweet potato pie of all time... From The Huffington Post/LIZ SMITH/11/20/2012 "So, once again, we will reprint an alternative, the famous Pink Teacup café's recipe for a dessert that looks just about the same as pumpkin. At the Teacup, they always offered sweet potato pie and here is the recipe:" 2 lbs. yams ý cup of butter 1 teaspoon cinnamon ü teaspoon ginger ý teaspoon salt ü teaspoon nutmeg 2 tablespoons white sugar 1 cup brown sugar 3 large eggs, separated ý cup orange juice 1 tablespoon grated orange rind ý cup of evaporated milk Peel and boil yams until mashable. Add butter, spices, salt, sugar to hot yams. Beat until light and smooth. Beat egg yolks until light and add to mixture. Stir in orange juice, orange rind and milk. Beat egg whites until stiff and fold in. Pour mixture into unbaked pie shell. Preheat oven to 350 and bake 35 minutes or until the pie puffs up and is firm in the middle. Cool on a rack. Add whipped cream. "Then, dig in, pilgrims! You'll have something that resembles pumpkin pie but is a thousand times better tasting and easy to make once you assemble the ingredients. Is it fattening? Sure, but Thanksgiving only comes once a year." "I have been giving this recipe annually for 50 years. People stop me on the streets of New York and ask me for it or about it. So, consider this a public service. And I've given you a few days time to work on this dessert, which is really easy to concoct even if you are not a chef." I never did make it to the Pink Tea Cup before it closed...wish I had....See MoreThe winning Sweet Potato Pie
Comments (9)OH this is so going to be made for Christmas dinner.. I have everything but the gingersnaps..but Midel makes a Gluten Free GSnap that I love..so it will be GF too.. oh and I don't have rum extract..but I do have vanilla beans that have been curing in rum for a month plus...perfect! Thanks Michael for sleuthing this one out!...See MoreFreezing Sweet Potato Pie?
Comments (5)Both pumpkin and winter squash are squash in the vegetable kingdom under the edible gourd section. The canned pumpkin is Curcurbita moschata "Dickinson" a winter squash butternut variety, and the carving pumpkin is Curcubita pepo, a winter squash too but doesn't taste good in a pumpkin pie because it is so watery it never would hold together to become a "puree" which is what canned "pumpkin" is - a winter squash puree. If you want to make your own puree, grow or buy the good ol' Butternut/Buttercup, or lovely Red Kuri, or Kabocha, or my favorite because of the unusual blue skin color - Queensland Blue, but then I usually can't wait for it to be pie and bake chunks of it with brown sugar and butter, several times because they grow huge.Don't buy the Sugar or Pie Pumpkin because, though they are cute, they don't have much "pie" flavor and taste just boring bland. Freezing a whole pie is not a good idea because to defrost it you get the outside thawed but the inside still has ice crystals. Better idea is to cut into slices and freeze individually (I use wax paper) and then put all of them in a freezer (Food Saver vacuum sucker) bag. I also freeze some little baked fancy crust cutouts like leaves or acorns to pop on the top before serving. Nancy...See Moremustangs81
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8 years agoLOL, nannygoat, it's probably a better choice than this one, also taken on Thanksgiving. We have some wild parties, LOL.
Annie
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