Old Fashioned Sweet Potato Pie

Steps Making Recipes Old Fashioned Sweet Potato Pie using 11 ingredients and 14 steps

Old Fashioned Sweet Potato Pie - Sweet Potato Pie W/ Marshmallow Meringue. Old-Fashioned Sweet Potato Pie Old-Fashioned Sweet Potato Pie. Don't let the demure looks or folksy name of this Old Fashioned Sweet Potato Pie fool you. This pie is deeply spiced, silky smooth, and topped off with a homemade marshmallow whipped cream. If that idea alone doesn't speak to your soul, then the toasted coconut flakes scattered over the top will.

Combine sweet potatoes and butter, mix well.

Add sugar, flour and spices, mix well again.

You can cook Old Fashioned Sweet Potato Pie using 11 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients make Old Fashioned Sweet Potato Pie

1. You need 2 cups peeled and cooked sweet potatoes.
2. It's 1 1/4 cup sugar, divided.
3. You need 1/2 stick butter, melted.
4. It's 2 eggs.
5. It's 1 tbsp vanilla extract.
6. Prepare 1/4 tsp salt.
7. Prepare 1/4 tsp cinnamon.
8. You need 1/4 tsp ginger.
9. Prepare 1 cup milk.
10. It's 1 9in unbaked pie crust.
11. Prepare 3 egg whites.

Old Fashioned Sweet Potato Pie step by step

1. Preheat oven to 350..
2. In a mixing bowl, mix together the sweet potatoes, 1 cup of sugar, butter, eggs, vanilla, salt, and the spices..
3. Incorporate well..
4. Add the milk and continue mixing..
5. Once mixed, pour into the pie crust..
6. Bake for 45 minutes..
7. When pie has 10 minutes left, begin the meringue..
8. In a glass or copper bowl, (I use glass) beat the egg whites to soft peaks..
9. Beat in 1/4 cup of sugar a tbsp at a time and beat well after each tbsp..
10. Beat until stiff peaks form that are glossy and not dry..
11. After 45 minutes, remove the pie from the oven..
12. With a rubber spatula, transfer the meringue onto the pie. Make sure to touch the crust all around to cover completely..
13. Place back in oven for 9-12 minutes to lightly brown the meringue..
14. Remove from oven and let cool before serving..

Old Fashioned Sweet Potato Pie - This helps create a smoother finished pie. Next, add the sugar, melted butter, eggs, vanilla, salt and spices to the potatoes and mix well until combined. Sweet potato pie was usually made on holidays or special occasions. Way back in the day, neighbors and family would make sure they would drop by to say hello just to get a slice of pie. There was always more than one pie made, luckily. Place the pie on a rack and cool to room temperature before covering with meringue. Place the pie on a rack and cool to room temperature before covering with meringue. Thank you and good luck