Name: Sweet Potato Pie
Yield: Yields 6 to 8 servings
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: ¼ teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg; 4 tablespoons brown sugar; 4 tablespoons flour; 4 tablespoons butter; ¼ cup (60 ml) Bourbon or dark rum; ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon; ¾ cup (151 g) light brown sugar; 3 eggs, separated; 1 recipe Pie Pastry for 8 ounces (225 g) of dough, partially baked; ¼ teaspoon salt; ¾ cup (180 ml) milk; 4 ounces (115 g) butter; 1 cup to 1¼ cups (235 to 295 ml) cooked, riced sweet potatoes (1 large or 2 small tubers); ¼ teaspoon ground cloves; 4 tablespoons chopped pecans

Preparation info

Yields
6 to 8
servings

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Bill Neal's Southern Cooking

By Bill Neal

Published 1985

About

Henry VIII, always in the market for an improvement in his love life, set the fashion for sweet potatoes at the English court in the sixteenth century. He voraciously consumed staggering amounts baked in spiced pies, believing tales of their aphrodisiacal powers. The sweet potato, its attributes unproved, lasted in favor about as long as one of Henry’s wives. Today in Europe its consumption is limited mainly to Spain, where it was introduced from the New World as early as 1