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Recipe: Old fashioned Cream Pie (Grandma Truex, modified)

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Old fashioned Cream Pie.
Grandma Truex’ Recipe (modified)

Summary: A fast, easy and delicious pie, with no top crust

Ingredients

Grandma and Grandpa Truex
Grace and Will Truex. This is her recipe, modified.

  • 1 Tablespoon butter
  • 6 Tablespoons flour
  • 1 1/4 cup sugar, half white and half brown (i.e. about 5/8 cup of each)
  • 1 egg*
  • 1 1/3 cup milk*
  • sprinkle a bit of cinnamon (optional)*

Instructions

  1. Dab butter in an unbaked pie shell.
  2. Mix the flour and sugar in a bowl. Add the egg.
  3. Slowly add the milk as you stir. Add enough to make a paste first, and then gradually add in the rest of the milk. If you add the milk too quickly, it will not all dissolve, and you’ll get a crusty layer on top of the cream when it bakes. Mix well.
  4. Poor in the pie shell. Sprinkle a bit of cinnamon on top (optional).
  5. Bake at 390 degrees for 30 minutes. Reduce heat to 325 degrees and bake until thick. After about another 20 or 30 minutes (50-60 minutes total, from when first placed in oven), a toothpick should come out clean. Refrigerate after it cools. Some people like to eat cream pie warm. I prefer it after it’s been in the refrigerator for a day.

*[note, the original recipe called for 1 1/3 cup milk & cream (half milk and half cream), with no egg. Instead, I use all milk and add an egg. Also, the original recipe did not call for any cinnamon.]

CulinaryTradition: USA (Traditional)

My rating: 5.0 stars
*****



Sweet Potato Pie

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Recipe: Tom’s Sweet Potato Pie

Summary: An easy sweet potato pie with common ingredients.

Ingredients

Sweet Potato Pie
Sweet Potato Pie
3 Medium sweet potatoes (about one pound or 1 ½ cup)
¼ cup butter (melted)
1 Tablespoon flour
½ cup milk
¾ cup sugar
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
A pinch of cinnamon

Instructions

1. Vent the sweet potatoes by poking them with a fork. Then bake sweet potatoes whole in skin at 350 degrees for about an hour, or until soft. Remove the skin.
EASY ALTERNATIVE: Cook sweet potatos in microwave on high for 10 minutes. Try another 5 minutes, if needed.
2. Mash sweet potatoes until creamy. Add the butter to the hot sweet potatoes to melt it as you mash them together. Then add the other ingredients in the order listed. Beat until smooth.
3. Pour into pie crust.[1. This is an “open face” pie, so you use the bottom crust only.] Sprinkle a bit of cinnamon on top just before putting in the oven.
4. Bake at 350 degrees for 55-60 minutes or until tooth pick comes out clean

CulinaryTradition: USA (Traditional)

My rating: 5.0 stars
*****

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