1881 - What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking

Sweet Potato Pie

DDV CULINARY

Two pounds of potatoes will make two pies.
Boil the potatoes soft;
peel and mash fine through a cullender while hot;
one tablespoonful of butter to be mashed in with the potato.
Take five eggs and beat the yelks and whites separate and add one gill of milk;
sweeten to taste;
squeeze the juice of one orange,
and grate one-half of the peel into the liquid.
One half teaspoonful of salt in the potatoes.
Have only one crust and that at the bottom of the plate.
Bake quickly.