Boiled Sweet Potato Pie

All through law school, I entertained friends with dinner parties and brunches, but dessert was an afterthought at best. The only dessert in my repertoire in those days was sweet potato pie—which I made because my mom had sent me a greeting card with a sweet potato pie recipe on the back. Over time, I improvised my way to a pie that’s pretty easy to throw together and extremely good. (You can make this with store-bought piecrusts. Because they’re shallower, this amount of filling is