Sweet potato pie is a traditional side dish or dessert in the Southern United States. It is often served during the American holiday season, especially at Thanksgiving, and is similar in many ways to pumpkin pie.
It is usually made as a large tart in an open pie shell without a top crust. The filling consists of mashed sweet potatoes, milk, sugar and eggs, flavored with spices such as cinnamon and nutmeg. Other possible ingredients include vanilla or lemon flavoring, maple syrup, molasses, and brown sugar. The baked custard filling may vary from a light and silky to dense, depending on the recipe's ratio of mashed potato, milk and eggs.
References in popular culture
- Country band Alabama's 1989 #1 hit "Song of the South" prominently features the line "Song, song of the South, sweet potato pie and shut my mouth"
- Eugenia Collier wrote a short story titled Sweet Potato Pie.
- On the popular NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, the character Will Smith frequently shows a love of sweet potato pie.
- Fox Mulder eats several slices in succession during the X-Files episode Jose Chung's "From Outer Space".
- Robert Cray released an album entitled Sweet Potato Pie in 1997.
- In the movie "I, Robot", the character Will Smith portrays, is constantly eating his grandmother's homemade sweet potato pie.
- In family matters Myrtle Urkel brought up "hushpuppy, grits, sweet potato pie" in her cheerleading dance.
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