The Very Best Sweet Potato Pie Dee Dees Food

WORLD'S BEST SWEET POTATO PIE

Steps:

• Place sweet potatoes into a large pot and cover with water; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until tender, 40 to 50 minutes. Drain water, peel sweet potatoes, and mash in a bowl.
• Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
• Mix butter and eggs together in a bowl until smooth; stir into mashed sweet potatoes. Mix milk, sugar, flour, vanilla extract, nutmeg, baking powder, and lemon juice into sweet potato mixture; pour into the 3 pie shells.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 10 minutes. Lower oven temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) and continue to bake until a toothpick inserted in the center of a pie comes out clean, about 40 minutes more. Cool pies for 15 to 30 minutes before refrigerating to cool completely, 1 to 2 hours.

THE VERY BEST SWEET POTATO PIE - DEE DEE'S

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• 2. Boil yams with skin on until a fork or butter knife causes the yams to easily break apart when inserted. Cool yams slightly, then, place in colander and run cold water over them to assist in removing the skins since the yams will be pretty hot. NOTE: you can bake the yams if preferred.
• 3. Beat yams with a mixer on medium, stopping frequently to remove strings from the beaters. Once the strings are removed, add butter and continue to mix.
• 4. Add remaining ingredients. You may want to adjust the nutmeg and sugar to your taste. I like my pie sweet with a good amount of nutmeg. Continue mixing the batter until it has a nice smooth consistency. The batter should not be thin or runny and it should not be too thick either. If too thick, add a little more evaporated milk by the tablespoon until batter is smooth.
• 5. Pour mixture into pie shell; sprinkle a dash of cinnamon on the top and bake for 50 minutes to 1 hour. TIP: Brush the edges of pie shell with ice water to prevent it from burning before the pie is done.
• 6. Brown specs on the top of the pie are an indication the pie is done. Insert a knife in the middle of pie and if it comes out clean, pie is done. Let cool for 1 hour before serving.
• 7. This pie is delicious when served with French Vanilla ice cream, a dollop of sweetened whipped cream or cold right out of the refrigerator.