Sweet Potato Pie

Name: Sweet Potato Pie
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: US & Canada, Southern, American
Ingredients: 1 (9-inch) single-crust, pie dough; 1 1/4 cups packed (8 3/4 ounces/248 grams), light brown sugar; 1 3/4 pounds (794 grams), sweet potatoes, unpeeled; 1/2 teaspoon, salt; 4 tablespoons, unsalted butter; 1/2 teaspoon, ground cinnamon; 1/4 teaspoon, ground nutmeg; 1 cup, sour cream; 3 , large eggs plus 2 large yolks; 2 tablespoons, bourbon (optional); 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract

Desserts or Baked Goods
US & Canada
Southern
American
Fruits & Vegetables
Potatoes
Make Ahead
Dessert Pies
Holiday
Thanksgiving

Appears in Cook's Country October/November 2013, Cook's Country TV

Pies with heavy, grainy, cloying fillings were not our idea of holiday dessert. To do this pie justice, we needed time...and lots of tubers.

SERVES 8

TIME 2 hours, plus 2 hours cooling

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