3 cups sweet potatoes
3 cups milk
3 Tbsp. butter
1 cup sugar
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. nutmeg
2 tsp. cinnamon
3 eggs
Peel and cut sweet potatoes across the grain. Boil in a small amount of water until tender. Drain. Add butter and salt, and mash thoroughly. Add sugar and spices; blend well. Add eggs and beat thoroughly. Heat milk until hot and add it to sweet potato mixture. Mix well. Sear 2 pastry shells by placing them in 450 degree oven for about 8 minutes. Pour pie mixture into seared pastry shells and bake in 450 degree oven until pie crust is light brown. Lower temperature and bake pie sets.
This was Mama’s recipe. For those of you too young to remember, Mama was Mama-T’s mother.