Grandma's Original Sweet Potato Pie

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00:00Hi everybody, this is Ms. Penny with one of Ms. Penny's favorite foods again.

00:11This is an old, old recipe, probably as old or older than the peach cobbler.

00:18Again, it's my grandmother's recipe, and that's over 100 years old, just her.

00:25And this is her mother's recipe. So this is a sweet potato pie.

00:30This is how my grandmother made it, Mabel Clara Parks, born in 1901 and died in 1974.

00:42This is her recipe, simple, pure ingredients. Here we go.

00:48I have got in this bowl, I boiled, she boiled her sweet potatoes whole.

00:55So this is four boiled sweet potatoes whole, and they're done. They're soft, but they're whole.

01:03This keeps all the flavor of the sweet potato in here.

01:06Immediately drain them. As soon as they're done, immediately drain them and skin them.

01:13The skin comes off really easy.

01:15Four whole sweet potatoes. It'll make two whole sweet potato pies the dish.

01:21Okay, now to that we're going to add our ingredients, and then we're going to whip it.

01:26So, first I break it up just a little bit with a spoon, or a potato masher.

01:32Either one you want to use, it doesn't really matter which.

01:35Just break it up a little bit so that all the ingredients can get into it before you whip it.

01:45To that, we are adding one stick of butter. I use a half a stick of butter per pie.

01:53So, usually at holidays I'm making eight pies. So, that's a lot of butter.

02:03But I use one half stick of butter per pie. So, one whole stick of butter goes in there.

02:12And put it in while your sweet potatoes is hot.

02:15It's very important to make your sweet potato custard while the sweet potatoes are piping hot.

02:21It does make a difference.

02:23To that, we are adding one cup of evaporated milk.

02:29You can use any brand of evaporated milk, but evaporate it.

02:36Not the sweet condensed milk. No. Evaporated milk.

02:41The whole cup goes in here.

02:46Sweet potato pie is a custard pie.

02:50And custard means cream and eggs. That's what custard means.

02:55And sweet potato pie is a custard.

02:59To that, we are adding one and a half cups of sugar.

03:08Now, you would think with calling it sweet potato pie, the sweet potatoes would need less sugar.

03:14But it's not true.

03:16Because sweet potatoes, for some reason, absorb sugar.

03:21And when they absorb the sugar, it doesn't make it that much sweeter.

03:27So, you really have to add the same amount of sugar as if you were using a berry or something that weren't sweet.

03:35You'd still have to add that much for your sweet potatoes, even though they say sweet potatoes.

03:43It absorbs the sugar.

03:45It's a chemistry thing.

03:47So, a cup and a half of sugar.

03:50A whole can or one cup of evaporated milk.

03:54To that, we're going to add four eggs.

03:57Let me put it in the mixer and then we'll continue.

04:01Oh, let's get out our nutmeg.

04:04Because we're going to need a teaspoon of nutmeg.

04:19For these pies, I'm going to use a teaspoon and a half.

04:25But that's just me.

04:28So, I used a teaspoon and a half.

04:33Because it's quite a bit of, quite a bit of custard.

04:37So, now we're going to move it over to the mixer.

04:40And we're going to start not too fast.

04:49We don't want it to splash.

04:51And it's going to look like that.

04:54You want it a thick custard, but you want it a pourable custard.

04:59Because you are making a custard.

05:03This is a, sweet potato pie is a sweet potato custard.

05:08Slow your roll, slow your roll.

05:14Okay.

05:15Alright.

05:16To that, I am adding a tablespoon of pure vanilla.

05:29And, of course, you know I use McCormick.

05:39Alright.

05:41Now we're going to put in our four eggs.

05:47I use two eggs per pie.

05:50So, four eggs go in.

05:52Again, this is a custard.

05:55This is how my grandmother made it over a hundred years ago.

05:58And I am still making it the exact same way.

06:01And it calls for two eggs per pie.

06:05Half a stick of butter per pie.

06:09And at least two thirds of a cup of sugar per pie.

06:21And that's the last egg.

06:23That's four eggs.

06:24Now I'm going to turn it up a little bit.

06:28Because I need for it to whip.

06:31The thing about a sweet potato pie custard is you may have a few small lumps.

06:42But because the sweet potatoes are fully cooked, and as it bakes, those lumps will dissolve.

06:49And the good thing about the mixers are it will catch your strings.

06:56So this is sweet potato pie custard.

07:03And this is the custard for the sweet potato pies.

07:06Again, over a hundred years old.

07:08This is exactly the recipe my grandmother used.

07:11And her mother who was a slave before her.

07:16They made their own vanilla flavoring with brandy and vanilla beans.

07:23They made their own butter.

07:27Which I, to this day, love.

07:30The closest that comes to it is the Amish butter.

07:33But this is her recipe.

07:36Okay.

07:37As you can see, all the strings.

07:50So we're going to put that there to catch that.

08:07We're going to put this back over here.

08:11With this.

08:16And this is the way your sweet potato pie custard should look.

08:26That's how it should look.

08:28It should not be thick like mashed potatoes.

08:32It should have some thickness.

08:37But this cream, eggs, and butter should give it this consistency.

08:43When it comes out of the oven, it will be fully formed, light, sweet, and perfect.

08:51Okay, so now we're going to, we're going to fill up our pie shells.

09:00We're going to put it on a 350 degree oven for approximately one hour.

09:08But when I come back, I will be able to tell you exactly how long it baked.

09:29Alright.

09:30That is an unbaked sweet potato pie.

09:34My grandmother's recipe over a hundred years old.

09:39And it's made exactly the way she did.

09:41As close as I can come to the original ingredients.

09:45Alright.

09:46We'll be back in a minute with the finished product.

09:48I'll see you then.

09:51Ready?

09:52Okay.

09:53We're back.

09:54I just took the sweet potato pie out of the oven.

09:58It's piping hot, so I'm not going to cut it yet.

10:01But I promise you, it's perfect.

10:03So enjoy.

10:05And again, thank you so much for watching the video.

10:10Thank you for your likes, your shares, your subscriptions, your comments.

10:14Thank you for your prayers.

10:16I really, really appreciate you all.

10:18I love you for supporting me.

10:20And this is my grandma's homemade sweet potato pie.

10:25Fresh ingredients.

10:26Simple ingredients.

10:27Perfect.

10:28You're going to love it.

10:29Alright.

10:30I love it.

10:31I love it.

10:32Alright.

10:33I love it.

10:37I love it.

Grandma's Original Sweet Potato Pie

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