Recipe: Shut Your Mouth Sweet Potato Pie

Shut your mouth Sweet Potato Pie

Description:After alot of trial and error, of trying to get a good sweet potato pie recipe dialed in, this is what I came up with, and it is good.
Ingredients:

3 lbs. Sweet Potatos/ Yams work best (fresh not canned)
1 stick of butter.
1 1/2 cups sugar.
1 can evaporated milk.
2 eggs.
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/2 tsp nutmeg.
Dash of cinnamon.

Directions:
Yams- poke 3 holes with knife into the Yams, Bake in oven at 425 degrees F for about an hour, untill soft

Pie Filling:

*Add 1 Stick of butter to warm sweet potatos/Yams(right from the oven, and peeled), and mash with a fork.
*add the rest of ingredients (except cinnamon) and mix till pie filling is real smooth.
*Pour into an uncooked pie crust
*Dust top with cinamon
*Bake for 50-60 min. At 400 Degrees F till you can stick a knife in it and pull it out clean
*Let cool at least one hour.

Pie Crust:
2 cups of flour
2/3 cup of shortning + 2 Tablespoon
1 teaspoon salt
5-6 tablespooons of Ice Water

*add shortning to flour and mix till crumbly.
*then add salt, and water and mix to a play dough consistancy.
*Roll out on a bread board dusted with flour
*place in 10" Dutch Oven, or 8-10" Pie pan