Sweet-potato Pie

Ingredients

• one large potato
• a piece of butter the size of a walnut
• enough milk to make it run through the colander without much difficulty
• yolks of two eggs well beaten
• sugar to taste
• a little cinnamon
• a little nutmeg
• brandy to suit

Method

1. 1

   Boil the potato until done, remove the skin, and mash thoroughly.

2. 2

   Add butter and milk.

3. 3

   When cold, mix in egg yolks, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and brandy.

4. 4

   Line a pie-dish with paste, pour in the mixture, and bake for about half an hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Harper's cook book encyclopædia (1902), page 295. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Sweet-potato Pie. — Allow one large potato to every pie. Boil until done ; remove the skin, mash thoroughly, add a piece of butter the size of a walnut, and enough milk to make it run through the colander without much difficulty. When cold, add yolks of two eggs well beaten, sugar to taste, a little cinnamon and nut- meg, brandy to suit

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