"Joseph Carlin" > wrote in message
...
> I have a lot of favorites but the one I keep coming back to is Mrs. Abby
> Fisher's recipe for Sweet Potato Pie. I teach the food history course at
> the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts and I demonstrate this recipe
because
> it gives me an opportunity to unbundle it. Abby was the author of What
Mrs.
> Fisher knows about Old Southern Cooking. first published in 1881.
> Considered the first cookbook by an African-American and a former slave.
> Abby lived and worked in San Francisco which explains the orange taste. I
> generally make one pie and make the following changes. I bake the sweet
> potatoes, I use only two eggs and add 1/2 cup sugar and 1/4 cup of milk.
> Her Recipe follows:
>
> Sweet Potato Pie
>
> 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, ande grate one half of the peel into the liquid. One half
> teaspoonful of salt in the potatoes. Have only one crust and thaty at the
> bottom of the plate. Bake quickly.
>
> Enjoy
>
Thanks.