Name: Sweet potato pie
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 100 g butter, cut into small pieces; 2 teaspoons caster sugar; ¼ teaspoon salt; 200 g plain flour, plus extra; 80 g brown sugar; 500 g sweet potatoes, peeled, boiled and mashed; 3–4 tablespoons iced water (more if needed); 1 egg yolk, lightly beaten (optional); 25 g butter; 3 tablespoons double cream; 2 tablespoons brandy; 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; pinch of ground cloves; 1 tablespoon orange flower water; 3 egg yolks; 2 egg whites

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Winter Food

By Jill Norman

Published 2005

About

This may sound odd, but think American pumpkin pie. Potato pies, sweetened with honey and later with sugar, were popular with our ancestors, and this version, made with sweet potatoes, draws on the flavours of orange flower water and cinnamon used in early Eriglish cooking.