Granny Lakey's Sweet Potato Pie Recipe
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Recipe
1 pound of sweet potatoes (or 1 –18oz can of sweet potatoes)
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 tsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp salt
3 eggs
1 ¾ cups milk
1 Tbsp butter or margarine, melted
1 unbaked 9 inch pie shell
Cook fresh potatoes, covered, in boiling water until tender, about 30 minutes. Peel and mash (or drain and mash canned potatoes). Measure 1 ½ cups. Combine potatoes, sugar, cinnamon and salt. Beat eggs slightly with fork. Stir eggs, milk and butter into potato mixture. Spoon into pie shell. Bake at 400 degrees until knife inserted just off-center comes out clean – 45 to 50 minutes.
Memory
Margaret Lakey was born in 1800 in South Carolina. She emigrated to Missouri. Somewhere along the line she was scalped by Indians but luckily she survived. But for the rest of her life she always wore a cap to cover that spot on her head. She worked as a seamstress and in later years was known as “Granny Lakey.” She died in 1882 at the ripe old age of 82. A dish that was often on southern tables was, and still is, sweet potato pie.
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