Best Sweet Potato Pie Recipe with Rum & Molasses

Sweet Potato Pie

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Filling

• 454g/1lb sweet potato

• 115 g/1stick butter, softened

• 100g/3.5ozs brown sugar

• 1 tablespoon molasses or golden syrup

• 1 tablespoon dark rum

• 120 ml/4flozs milk

• 2 eggs

• 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg

• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Pie Crust

• 2 cups plain flour

• 1/2 teaspoon salt

• 1/2 teaspoon sugar

• 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoons vegetable oil

• 4-5 tablespoons of cold milk

• 1 9 inch pie dish, greased with butter

• plus 1 tablespoon of milk for milk wash

Or 1 9inch unbaked pie crust

DIRECTIONS-make step 1 of filling first as this takes 40-50 minutes to cook. Whilst cooking you can prepare the pastry.

To make pastry:

Step 1 - Mix flour, salt and sugar. Measure oil and milk together but don’t stir together. Pour the milk and oil into flour until combined and resembling a pastry. If it doesn’t come together add a little more milk.

Step 2 - Roll out pastry on greaseproof paper with a rolling pin (it will be hard to roll as small bits flake off, the greaseproof paper is the best thing to combat this) and roll out pastry to fit pie tin. Carefully lift pastry into greased pie dish. I found it difficult to get the fluted edge as I couldn't roll the pastry out enough so if you want to get the edge which always looks nicer, roll out your remaining pastry and then cut into 1cms strips, Pinch the strips together down the length of the strip to make them 1/2 cms thickand then pinch it to make the fluted pattern. Lift lengths of this onto the edge of the pie crust and neaten the job. Do this until the whole pie crust edge has a fluted edge. Place pastry in freezer while you get the filling together.

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To make filling:

Step 1 - Boil sweet potato whole in skin for 40 to 50 minutes, or until done. Run cold water over the sweet potato, and slip off the skins.

Step 2 - Break apart sweet potato in the bowl of an electric with a fork, it will be mushy so this will be easy. Add the butter, and mix well with mixer. Stir in sugar, milk, eggs, nutmeg, cinnamon and vanilla. Beat on medium speed until mixture is smooth. Pour filling into an unbaked pie crust. Brush pastry edges with milk wash.

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Step 3 - Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 55 to 60 minutes, or until knife inserted in center comes out clean. Pie will be puffed up but will sink down as it cools.

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