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Sweet Potato (Yam) Pie

Recipe courtesy Mary Beth Johnson
Show:	All American Festivals
Episode:	East Texas Yamboree

1 unbaked pie crust, recipe follows*
1 1/2 cups cooked, peeled and mashed sweet potatoes
1 heaping teaspoon all-purpose flour
1 cup milk (canned, half and half, cream or whole milk)
1 cup sugar
3 egg yolks
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
2 tablespoons margarine, melted

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Roll out 1 pie crust and place it in a pie plate. Mix all of the remaining ingredients together and pour into the unbaked pie crust. Bake for 45 minutes or until pie is firm. Allow to cool completely.

*Note: This filling is for 1 pie crust. The remaining 3 crusts can be used for other pies or frozen.

Pie Crust (recipe for 4 pie crusts):
4 cups all-purpose flour
1 3/4 cups shortening (butter flavored)
2 teaspoons salt
1 tablespoon sugar
1 large egg
1/2 cup water
1 tablespoon white vinegar

Mix flour, shortening, salt and sugar together with a pastry blender until well blended. Slightly beat egg, water and vinegar together with a whisk and pour over the well blended flour mixture. Mix all ingredients together with a fork. Divide crust into 4 equal parts. Roll each with a rolling pin and place into 4 pie pans. Flute edges of crust.

Yield: 4 pie crusts

A viewer, who may not be a professional cook, provided this recipe. The Food Network Kitchens chefs have not tested this recipe and therefore, we cannot make representation as to the results.