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2
pies, 10 inches in diameterEasy
By Bo Friberg
Published 1989
Sweet potatoes and sweet potato pie have deep ties to the American South and southern regional cooking. Sweet potatoes are also an important agricultural crop in the southern states, though they are also grown elsewhere in the country (New Jersey and California being the other top producers). The flesh is naturally sweet due to an enzyme in the potato that converts the majority of its starches to sugar as the potato matures. Still, most traditional American recipes call for generous quantit