Thanksgiving and Sweet Potatoe Pie

First, needless to say, I have much to be thankful for on this Thanksgiving. We as men marry the women who will put up with our insecurities and have strengths where we have weaknesses. At the holidays we find ourselves fairly useless as the turkey and dressing and house cleaning (this is not just picking up your stack of dirty socks from under the bed) proceed. You want to help but what to do? The answer is find something you can make a day or two ahead (which allows you to stay from underfoot) that will keep and everyone likes. In my case I make sweet potato pie from scratch not including pie dough.



Recipe: Sweet Potato Pie

1. 2 lbs cooked sweet potatoes (easy to do peel skin put in water add tablespoon sea salt, boil until fork is easy to insert, immediately drain off water add 1 stick melted butter while still hot set aside and allow to cool.)
   

• 2 frozen deep dish pie crust from grocery store






• 1 can Eagle Brand sweetened condensed milk



• 4 large eggs beaten (eggs in bowl take fork or whisk and mix together)


• 1 stick butter meted


• 2 cups brown sugar


• 1 cup white sugar


• 1 tablespoon vanilla


• 2 tablespoons molasses


• 1/2 teaspoon salt


• 1/2 teaspoon ginger


• 1/2 teaspoon cloves


• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg


• 2 teaspoon ground coriander


• 3 tablespoons cinnamon


• 2 shot glass dark rum (if desired gives really good flavor and should remain one of your secret ingredients, don't worry the alcohol cooks out when you bake)

Turn on oven to 425F and allow to preheat about 15 Minutes

• Combine all liquids eggs included

• In bowl that you have potatoes cooling combine all dry ingredients mix together with a mixer on low do not add liquids yet. You may see some long tuber string's wrapped around beaters remove strings from beaters.
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  Add liquids and mix with mixer until no more big lumps (nothing bigger than a pea)

• Pour into pie crusts about 7/8Th full (important don't over fill, makes a mess you have to clean up as well as setting off smoke alarms and the rolling of your wife's eyes)

• Put the two pies on baking sheet and put on center shelf of oven

• Set timer for 15 minutes, when it goes off turn down the oven to 350F and reset timer to 50 minutes.

• Insert toothpick in center of pie, dip and pull out, is it drippy wet? No: pie is done , yes: cook another 10 minutes only.

• As pie bakes clean up the kitchen which you have turned to shambles.

• As pie cools it will slightly deflate maybe even a small crack.

Allow to cool to room temperature and serve with homemade whipped cream or Kraft Cool Whip