I knew why my grandparents (in Michigan) stopped getting sap from their trees but had no idea about a liqueur being made from it. Thank you - and yes, many of us do want to know.
"Maybe you don't want to know this" Glen says like he's about to talk about STD's rather then maple syrup production. OF COURSE I WANNA KNOW I'm a food nerd!
Never mind about saying that you can’t believe you talked “so long” on a subject. We love your “rants” because it really informs us of the subject you’re on.
Being African American, with both my parents being from Louisiana (and my wife a Mississippian,) sweet potato pie is a staple for my family during the holidays. It's not a fall/winter holiday celebration without it.
It definitely seems more prominent further south. I lived in NC for a while and most of the holidays gatherings had SP pie and not much pumpkin. So I started making and bringing pumpkin pie.
Glen! Don't ever stop sharing your knowledge and history while cooking! It's what makes your show better than others! I had never heard of Acerum and now I want to get some!!
I'm 79 years old, and I've had sweet potato pie all my life. My grandmother was from Mississippi, and she was a GREAT cook. Two of the best desserts she made were sweet potato and apricot fried pies. Your recipe ingredients are spot on. The only thing missing was vanilla extract.
My MIL has the best sweet potato pie/custard recipe ever. Turned me from a sweet potato hater into a fan! No warm spices, just a metric ton of vanilla for flavoring.
The container you heave about filled with delicious homemade dark maple syrup must be the envy of many viewers.. This will make an appearance on our table for sure. Thank you 😊
We grew pumpkins and sweet potatoes on my parents' farm in the Blue Ridge foothills. We gave away the pumpkins and ate sweet potato everything. Casserole, custard pie, pudding, cobbler, baked and buttered or just plain baked. 65 years later I still opt for sweet potato over pumpkin.
When I was first diagnosed with being celiac, I made pumpkin pie filling and just turned that into a custard cause I didn't know how to make a GF crust. Now I know how to make a crust, but I always make extra filling so I can have a custard to myself as a treat, lol.
My mother is celiac and also can't have dairy either and she wrote a gluten-free dairy-free cookbook adjusting all of the old recipes and what she came up with for pumpkin was a pumpkin chocolate cake that is dairy-free gluten-free and it is to die for. She throws a thick chocolate ganache on top and you're not wanting for any of the things that it doesn't have. I think Glen's pie looks very similar
In my family it's a sweet potato "casserole" which is essentially that filling in a 9x13 and a brown sugar and pecan topping. I think if my mother ever didn't make it my family would revolt. Its especially great warmed up the next day with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
It's heart warming to see you licking the spoon. I think this would convert to an "impossible" pie very easily! Enjoyed your explanation of the liquor distillation and flavor profile, most people don't experiment with spirits because they haven't tasted them. My favorite fresh fruit bowl has a touch of Frangelico added.
So my Grandma had an awesome sweet potato pie. Potatoes baked, mashed, and thickened with arrowroot in apple juice. Fresh ginger juice added to that. Poured into a oat/seed/granola type crust. Topped with applesauce and baked. 😋 So good!
Ahhhhh! Thank you! As a young adult, I lived in N.C. for a couple of years in the late 80's. I had never heard of Sweet Potato Pie until then. Maybe because I grew up in the western US? Sweet potatoes in general have become more universal so I'm seeing more recipes for pie as well. That's a good thing.
I just finished watching the video on your New Foundland trip where you like people to say Howdy if they see you. Maybe I’ll see you at Airventure sometime! Anyway, one of the things i love about your channel is the educational aspect. I don’t drink alcohol but I found the discussion on how Acerum is made. I also love how you encourage people to play with recipes. Love the videos!!
I grew up in the Midwest, Michigan and I don't remember having sweet potatoes much. Then I ended up in FL, married w/ 2 children. Worke the night shift going to different floors and units, did errands for the night supers, collected x-ray & lab reports etc. The lab department was my favorite and the techs were fun to chat a few with. One night one tech brought in a sweet potato pie made by grandma. Can't say I was over the moon over it, but didn't share my opinion. I was just happy with the first experience. Have learned that memories play an important part of holiday foods & taste of home for most people. Thank you for sharing this.
Always a treat watching your videos and especially for those that would shudder at the thought of eating something with raw eggs, long live the licked spoon
Sweet potato pies are on of my favourites! I make mine ginger forward. Actually will not even use cinnamon. I am going to have and try it with maple syrup!
Happy Thanksgiving to Glen and Julie and all my fellow Canadians. 🍁🦃🥧 I'm a huge fan of pumpkin pie, but I've never had sweet potato pie. It looks delicious. BTW, that massive jug of maple syrup must have cost an arm and a leg.
Actually massive jugs like that are better than you'd expect. If you can find a farmer who's making it (my FIL's source involves something like "take the gravel driveway past the first two farms...") it's maybe $50 for the jug. Which is a pretty penny, but a much much better unit price, especially if you compare it to something like the President's Choice stuff. (It's also cheaper if you get the dark stuff, which I prefer anyhow).
Pumpkin pie use to be my favorite but when I met my wife here in East Texas she introduced me to sweet potato pie and I have never gone back to pumpkin
Sorghum molasses was easy to get in the 1960s and 1970s when I was growing up in the middle of Illinois. At least one commercial brand and the local Amish and Mennonites made some too. I haven’t seen a recently. For a while, sorghum was popular among abolitionists because it was a sugary syrup not associated with slavery…
Growing up, we exclusively had sweet potato pie instead of pumpkin. My grandmother made it distinctly different by adding a little orange flavoring. Really makes a wonderful flavored pie. Later when I got older and had pumpkin pie, I was terribly disappointed at what seemed like a lack of flavor! Now, of course, I appreciate both - but as you suggested, Glen, I have put the sweet potato filling in a casserole dish so I can have both dishes at Thanksgiving! Thanks for another terrific video!
So I grew up in the southern US and Never had a sweet potato pie. We always had the canned “pumpkin” which is not pumpkin but is actually winter squash. So I am now into experimenting with carrot, sweet potato, real pumpkin, hubbard squash, etc. and roasting them to concentrate the flavor then calling it Thanksgiving pie. If the guests don’t know they will simply think it is very good pumpkin pie. I love the idea of adding maple syrup (I live in Michigan now) but the best darkest one you can find.
Libby's canned pumpkin is made from Chinese white pumpkins. I know this because I lived in Morton IL where their canning factory is. I grew up in Illinois and even though my grandmother grew them I never had sweet potato pie. As an adult I am still searching for the recipe that makes me want a second piece of pie. I will have to try this one.
Sweet potatoes only made it to the holiday table under a heavy blanket of marshmallows, maple syrup and nuts...and rarely at that. Never tasted a sweet potato pie until I was an adult. Thank you for the education about Acerum, I've never even heard of it before. Hope you have a lovely and meaningful Thanksgiving, I know it will be filled with good food.
This looks so good! I think sweet potato pie gets overlooked just because it's so visually similar to pumpkin and recipes share some of the same spices.
the last time i made a sweet potato pie I made a gingersnap cookie crust. It was a very nice twist on the typical sweet potato pie. My family usually had sweet potatoes with honey, cinnamon and butter baked in dish with marshmallows on top for our Thanksgiving. I preferred it either in a pie or mashed with balsamic vinegar drizzled on top
Grew up on Eastern Shore of VA, only ever had sweet potato pie. Must use Hayman Potatoes and less filling for thinner pie. Agree, much more earthy less spiced flavor. The best tasting and great memories!!! Thanks Glen.
My friend Rachel goes to NY every year and brings me real syrup from a farm upstate, only 3 miles from her cabin in Lake Luzerne. And she brings me cheesecake from Nuns of New Skate and chevre from Nettle Meadow Artisanal Cheese. I'm a lucky woman!
I created a sweet potato soufflé recipe years ago based off of a carrot soufflé recipe that I found. Since my husband is allergic to cinnamon, I always leave it out, & honestly, I think it tastes better that way. No crust. And it’s great both hot and cold.
I live in Australia and it's hard to work out what pumpkin would work. I found Alton browns version of this and now I get instructed every now and then to make it for my wife.
My family has always done pumpkin pie, which I guess is fine. Last time I hosted Thanksgiving I did a chocolate pecan pie and a mixed berry pie. Now, my new personal favorite for when I want a "pie" for the fall/winter holidays is a Nantucket Christmas pie because it helps use up extra cranberries and I don't need to bother with a pie crust.
Family likes me to make the casserole. I use lots of maple syrup & butter, some brown sugar Please mention that sweet potatoes are grown in Ontario, tho’ I’m concerned that growers are becoming fewer.
i agree with all the comments below. We want to know everything you are so good to share. I love how you lick the whisk and smile. FYI - I use unsweetened microwaved sweet potato in lots of foods I make to make them more delicious and sweeter, such as beans and vegetables, tomato sauce without meat but loaded with onions and garlic, etc. Who needs sugar? Not me. I also use my immersion blender to combine everything along with the very nutritious potato skins. Thanks, Glen. - Marilyn
We never had sweet potato pie. Definitely had pumpkin. However in later years I cook just the pumpkin custard in a bain-marie in the oven because the part of a pie that love the most is the filling.
Loved how real you are Glen! Lickin that whisk & then the spatula 😅 I am saving this recipe & will make just the custard using my own home grown Sweet Potatoes that will be harvested this week. 😊
Re pie without the crust - I often do this with my pumpkin pie filling - I make a pumpkin pudding rather than a pumpkin pie. I cook it with a pan of water in the oven to keep the surface from cracking.
One Thanksgiving many years ago, I had taken my pumpkin pie outside to cool on my patio. When I went to retrieve it I had to shoo a crow off a very sadly decimated pie. I still had time to bake another pie, enough pastry and other ingredients but not enough pumpkin. I supplemented the pumpkin with steamed, mashed sweet potato and carrot purée. It was the best “pumpkin” pie ever and I now do it that way every time, as I will tomorrow for our Thanksgiving get-together. Happy Thanksgiving Glen and Julie 🥧🦃🍁🍂🇨🇦
I’m always glad to learn more, especially about things I have never experienced. I have seen it referred to, but don’t remember learning what the word means. Thanks for taking the time to share what you know! As for Sweet Potatoes, I love them. Always prefer to slow roast until some of the sugars drip down and bubble on the baking sheet. Smells wonderful, and is a useful indicator that the potatoes are properly done. In recent years I have been cutting down on added sugars, but sweet potato casserole is not the place to begin a life of austerity, lol! Gotta have some fun, right??
Sweet potato is my holiday pie of choice, but we ate sweet potato pudding throughout fall and winter. They're cheap and plentiful in VA. Mom would add coconut and/or crushed pineapple to her puddings. No worries about soggy crust!
I make it with the traditional pumpkin pie spices, molasses (my husband loves molasses), bourbon and bourbon vanilla, that I have made (bourbon and vanilla beans soaked and shaken). We like sweet potato pie more than pumpkin pie. I'll have to remember that about the bottom crust.
This is a tough one. I never know if people are mistaken or if they've just made something up that they like. No doubt that vanilla beans soaked in Bourbon (whiskey) is great; but that's not actually what 'Bourbon Vanilla' is. The House of Bourbon is a French aristocratic family (founded in the 1200s) that owned an island; Île Bourbon in the Indian Ocean. For a time early in the commercial production of vanilla (1850s) it was said that the most fragrant Vanilla was grown there. It was one of the first 'branded' products: Bourbon Vanilla, and vanilla grown there is still highly prized today. But it wasn't / isn't made with American Bourbon Whiskey, which is a common misconception. But if you and your family love it - that's great!
I checked, Glen, and there is a recipe for carrot pie on your channel that is 4 years old. It's called "1930 Carrot Pie Recipe" . I live in Ohio, and sweet potato pie is more of a southern dish in the United States, at least that's my experience. I never knew there was such a thing as sweet potato pie until I was in my twenties or maybe even 30's. We only ever had pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving.
My family is African-American and my grandparents are from the south. For whatever reason sweet potato pies tend to be more prominent during the holidays than pumpkin pies-I actually never had pumpkin pie until I was an adult. We didn’t really use maple syrup much either, so I would be really interested to see how it tastes in a sweet potato pie.
I don't have pizza stone or baking steel, but have no problems with soggy bottoms. Heat a sheet pan when preheating the oven and put the pie tin on top.
At the end Julie mentioned Date Custard. I'm intrigued as growing up in the southern United States I've never heard of this. But yes, we had sweet potato pie. It's oddly the only custard we use margarine instead of butter because it oddly had a richer flavour.
I am one of those people who is just not a fan of "sweet" sweet potato dishes; the tastiest way I eat sweet potatoes is to treat them like regular potatoes and make "loaded baked sweet potatoes." Absolutely fantastic! But I tip my hat to those who eat their sweet potatoes this way 😂
Glen you are my muse!😂 always giving me something to feed my next ADHD research side-quest/rabbit hole. Honestly how would I befuddle my friends or family with random facts if I didn’t watch your channel! 😊 Ps. thanks for your research and delicious hard work.
I am a child of the southern US. We didn't have pumpkin pie. Sweet potato pie remains my favorite. We also make what we call hand pies out of sweet potatoes. No pie crust? We call that sweet potato soufflé. No Thanksgiving here is complete without sweet potatoes. Thanks for this reminder that the season is upon us!
I like a good sweet potato pie over pumpkin, but for my all time sugar high, sweet potato pecan is the best. That sweet custard with the pecan filling on top can't be beat.
My MIL made hers in a sheet pan so everyone would get at least a little bit. Always a popular dessert. May try your version with the sorghum. I don't care for maple. See how it goes.💝
I'm terrible at making pie crust so I make a cookie crumb crust out of cheap oatmeal cookies or ginger snaps. I put them in the food processor and pulse until I have a coarse crumb. You'll need about 1&1/2 cups. Add a stick of melted butter. Press into the bottom of a buttered 9x9 baking dish. Add your sweet potato filling and bake for about an hour at 350.
I love sweet potatoes but not sweet potato pie. I've never made one, though; they've all been bought from a grocery store bakery. I need to try this sometime.
"Maybe you don't wanna know this"...Glen, I know I'm not alone in saying that part of why we're here is for the education you provide 😁
Absolutely
Co-signing. I watch episodes that are things I’ll never eat or adapt (I’m vegetarian), but the whys often carry over.
I agree! I’ve never heard of Acerum. Cool.
I knew why my grandparents (in Michigan) stopped getting sap from their trees but had no idea about a liqueur being made from it. Thank you - and yes, many of us do want to know.
And another one to join this line! I just shared it with family in the US.
"Maybe you don't want to know this" Glen says like he's about to talk about STD's rather then maple syrup production. OF COURSE I WANNA KNOW I'm a food nerd!
Never mind about saying that you can’t believe you talked “so long” on a subject. We love your “rants” because it really informs us of the subject you’re on.
Yup!
Being African American, with both my parents being from Louisiana (and my wife a Mississippian,) sweet potato pie is a staple for my family during the holidays. It's not a fall/winter holiday celebration without it.
It definitely seems more prominent further south. I lived in NC for a while and most of the holidays gatherings had SP pie and not much pumpkin. So I started making and bringing pumpkin pie.
Glen! Don't ever stop sharing your knowledge and history while cooking! It's what makes your show better than others! I had never heard of Acerum and now I want to get some!!
I love a good Glen dance during the tasting. The best way to tell a recipe is a winner.
Leftover pumpkin pie filling makes for wonderful French toast the next morning
@@owlyus send him this recipe!
That's what I was thinking!!
_Leftover pumpkin pie filling_ ??? There is no such thing ! At least not in my house.
🤔 I'll have to try that!
@@bdavis7801I was thinking the same thing going what is that and now I must try it
Your delight is absolutely infectious!!! You make my Saturday and Sunday mornings!!! Thanks to you and Julie for being the best thing on the YT.
I definitely wanted to know!
I'm 79 years old, and I've had sweet potato pie all my life. My grandmother was from Mississippi, and she was a GREAT cook. Two of the best desserts she made were sweet potato and apricot fried pies. Your recipe ingredients are spot on. The only thing missing was vanilla extract.
My MIL has the best sweet potato pie/custard recipe ever. Turned me from a sweet potato hater into a fan!
No warm spices, just a metric ton of vanilla for flavoring.
Sounds like a plan.
The container you heave about filled with delicious homemade dark maple syrup must be the envy of many viewers.. This will make an appearance on our table for sure. Thank you 😊
We grew pumpkins and sweet potatoes on my parents' farm in the Blue Ridge foothills. We gave away the pumpkins and ate sweet potato everything. Casserole, custard pie, pudding, cobbler, baked and buttered or just plain baked. 65 years later I still opt for sweet potato over pumpkin.
When I was first diagnosed with being celiac, I made pumpkin pie filling and just turned that into a custard cause I didn't know how to make a GF crust.
Now I know how to make a crust, but I always make extra filling so I can have a custard to myself as a treat, lol.
My mother is celiac and also can't have dairy either and she wrote a gluten-free dairy-free cookbook adjusting all of the old recipes and what she came up with for pumpkin was a pumpkin chocolate cake that is dairy-free gluten-free and it is to die for. She throws a thick chocolate ganache on top and you're not wanting for any of the things that it doesn't have. I think Glen's pie looks very similar
I just don’t like crust, so I do the same thing. 😊
Our baker friend used to do the same for my family.
@@phranerphamilycare to share that recipe? I’m gf and that sounds fabulous!
I love sweet potatoes! Baked; cubed/steamed in summer salads; cubed in vegetarian winter soups/stews/curries.
In my family it's a sweet potato "casserole" which is essentially that filling in a 9x13 and a brown sugar and pecan topping. I think if my mother ever didn't make it my family would revolt. Its especially great warmed up the next day with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
Thank you for the pizza stone in the oven for custard pies! I'll be doing that this year.
It's heart warming to see you licking the spoon. I think this would convert to an "impossible" pie very easily! Enjoyed your explanation of the liquor distillation and flavor profile, most people don't experiment with spirits because they haven't tasted them. My favorite fresh fruit bowl has a touch of Frangelico added.
the ramekin of leftover pie filling was always my favorite lol
So my Grandma had an awesome sweet potato pie. Potatoes baked, mashed, and thickened with arrowroot in apple juice. Fresh ginger juice added to that. Poured into a oat/seed/granola type crust. Topped with applesauce and baked. 😋 So good!
Ahhhhh! Thank you! As a young adult, I lived in N.C. for a couple of years in the late 80's. I had never heard of Sweet Potato Pie until then. Maybe because I grew up in the western US? Sweet potatoes in general have become more universal so I'm seeing more recipes for pie as well. That's a good thing.
I just finished watching the video on your New Foundland trip where you like people to say Howdy if they see you. Maybe I’ll see you at Airventure sometime!
Anyway, one of the things i love about your channel is the educational aspect. I don’t drink alcohol but I found the discussion on how Acerum is made. I also love how you encourage people to play with recipes.
Love the videos!!
I like that Julie just picked up Glenn's fork while he was chattering away and dug into the pie leaving her clean fork on the counter 🤣.
I make a very similar sweet potato pie, but I add bourbon to the batter, and I put a pecan praline topping on it.
I grew up in the Midwest, Michigan and I don't remember having sweet potatoes much.
Then I ended up in FL, married w/ 2 children. Worke the night shift going to different floors and units, did errands for the night supers, collected x-ray & lab reports etc. The lab department was my favorite and the techs were fun to chat a few with. One night one tech brought in a sweet potato pie made by grandma. Can't say I was over the moon over it, but didn't share my opinion. I was just happy with the first experience. Have learned that memories play an important part of holiday foods & taste of home for most people. Thank you for sharing this.
Always a treat watching your videos and especially for those that would shudder at the thought of eating something with raw eggs, long live the licked spoon
First time posting. Our whole family gathera around the TV for every new episode. Because of the great conversation and education love your channels.
Wow! That's one fine looking pie! My mouth is watering. This will be the scratch pie for Thanksgiving! Thanks, Glen!
Sweet potato pies are on of my favourites! I make mine ginger forward. Actually will not even use cinnamon. I am going to have and try it with maple syrup!
I like to mince up crystalized ginger into tiny nuggets and fold them into the sweet potato pie base.
It's awesome in apple pie as well!
@@joanneentwistle7653 I'll have to try that!
That is one beautiful looking pie😋
Happy Thanksgiving to Glen and Julie and all my fellow Canadians. 🍁🦃🥧
I'm a huge fan of pumpkin pie, but I've never had sweet potato pie. It looks delicious.
BTW, that massive jug of maple syrup must have cost an arm and a leg.
I bet it's from the last time they made their own.
Actually massive jugs like that are better than you'd expect. If you can find a farmer who's making it (my FIL's source involves something like "take the gravel driveway past the first two farms...") it's maybe $50 for the jug. Which is a pretty penny, but a much much better unit price, especially if you compare it to something like the President's Choice stuff. (It's also cheaper if you get the dark stuff, which I prefer anyhow).
Pumpkin pie use to be my favorite but when I met my wife here in East Texas she introduced me to sweet potato pie and I have never gone back to pumpkin
Happy Thanksgiving, Julie & Glen!
Sorghum molasses was easy to get in the 1960s and 1970s when I was growing up in the middle of Illinois. At least one commercial brand and the local Amish and Mennonites made some too. I haven’t seen a recently.
For a while, sorghum was popular among abolitionists because it was a sugary syrup not associated with slavery…
Growing up, we exclusively had sweet potato pie instead of pumpkin. My grandmother made it distinctly different by adding a little orange flavoring. Really makes a wonderful flavored pie. Later when I got older and had pumpkin pie, I was terribly disappointed at what seemed like a lack of flavor! Now, of course, I appreciate both - but as you suggested, Glen, I have put the sweet potato filling in a casserole dish so I can have both dishes at Thanksgiving! Thanks for another terrific video!
I always make a pumpkin pie and a sweet potato pie at Thanksgiving.
So I grew up in the southern US and Never had a sweet potato pie. We always had the canned “pumpkin” which is not pumpkin but is actually winter squash. So I am now into experimenting with carrot, sweet potato, real pumpkin, hubbard squash, etc. and roasting them to concentrate the flavor then calling it Thanksgiving pie. If the guests don’t know they will simply think it is very good pumpkin pie. I love the idea of adding maple syrup (I live in Michigan now) but the best darkest one you can find.
Canned pumpkin is usually butternut squash. It isn't as stringy as pumpkin, so it's easier to process. My friend calls it "pumpkin guts."
According to doing research pumpkin is a winter squash
@@janeyant2375I don't agree with you from what I have canned my own pumpkin did not have any stringy
Libby's canned pumpkin is made from Chinese white pumpkins. I know this because I lived in Morton IL where their canning factory is. I grew up in Illinois and even though my grandmother grew them I never had sweet potato pie. As an adult I am still searching for the recipe that makes me want a second piece of pie. I will have to try this one.
Excellent video again Glen. Love your brown apron too, can't wait for mine to show up 👍
Sweet potatoes only made it to the holiday table under a heavy blanket of marshmallows, maple syrup and nuts...and rarely at that. Never tasted a sweet potato pie until I was an adult. Thank you for the education about Acerum, I've never even heard of it before. Hope you have a lovely and meaningful Thanksgiving, I know it will be filled with good food.
This looks so good! I think sweet potato pie gets overlooked just because it's so visually similar to pumpkin and recipes share some of the same spices.
the last time i made a sweet potato pie I made a gingersnap cookie crust. It was a very nice twist on the typical sweet potato pie. My family usually had sweet potatoes with honey, cinnamon and butter baked in dish with marshmallows on top for our Thanksgiving. I preferred it either in a pie or mashed with balsamic vinegar drizzled on top
Grew up on Eastern Shore of VA, only ever had sweet potato pie. Must use Hayman Potatoes and less filling for thinner pie. Agree, much more earthy less spiced flavor. The best tasting and great memories!!! Thanks Glen.
My friend Rachel goes to NY every year and brings me real syrup from a farm upstate, only 3 miles from her cabin in Lake Luzerne. And she brings me cheesecake from Nuns of New Skate and chevre from Nettle Meadow Artisanal Cheese. I'm a lucky woman!
I created a sweet potato soufflé recipe years ago based off of a carrot soufflé recipe that I found. Since my husband is allergic to cinnamon, I always leave it out, & honestly, I think it tastes better that way. No crust. And it’s great both hot and cold.
Looks bloody amazing.
Okay Glen, you’re invited to the cook out 😂
My go-to pumpkin pie calls for 15 minutes before you turn down the oven and it always makes a good crust. ;)
I live in Australia and it's hard to work out what pumpkin would work. I found Alton browns version of this and now I get instructed every now and then to make it for my wife.
My family has always done pumpkin pie, which I guess is fine. Last time I hosted Thanksgiving I did a chocolate pecan pie and a mixed berry pie.
Now, my new personal favorite for when I want a "pie" for the fall/winter holidays is a Nantucket Christmas pie because it helps use up extra cranberries and I don't need to bother with a pie crust.
Family likes me to make the casserole. I use lots of maple syrup & butter, some brown sugar
Please mention that sweet potatoes are grown in Ontario, tho’ I’m concerned that growers are becoming fewer.
i agree with all the comments below. We want to know everything you are so good to share. I love how you lick the whisk and smile. FYI - I use unsweetened microwaved sweet potato in lots of foods I make to make them more delicious and sweeter, such as beans and vegetables, tomato sauce without meat but loaded with onions and garlic, etc. Who needs sugar? Not me. I also use my immersion blender to combine everything along with the very nutritious potato skins. Thanks, Glen. - Marilyn
We never had sweet potato pie. Definitely had pumpkin. However in later years I cook just the pumpkin custard in a bain-marie in the oven because the part of a pie that love the most is the filling.
Loved how real you are Glen! Lickin that whisk & then the spatula 😅
I am saving this recipe & will make just the custard using my own home grown Sweet Potatoes that will be harvested this week. 😊
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
Something I didn't know before and a big takeaway for me, a 9" deep dish pie crust holds three cups of filling! Thank You!
Enjoyed all the education on this one !
Re pie without the crust - I often do this with my pumpkin pie filling - I make a pumpkin pudding rather than a pumpkin pie. I cook it with a pan of water in the oven to keep the surface from cracking.
Looks delicious! Have a wonderful Thanksgiving Glen & Julie!
One Thanksgiving many years ago, I had taken my pumpkin pie outside to cool on my patio. When I went to retrieve it I had to shoo a crow off a very sadly decimated pie. I still had time to bake another pie, enough pastry and other ingredients but not enough pumpkin. I supplemented the pumpkin with steamed, mashed sweet potato and carrot purée. It was the best “pumpkin” pie ever and I now do it that way every time, as I will tomorrow for our Thanksgiving get-together. Happy Thanksgiving Glen and Julie 🥧🦃🍁🍂🇨🇦
sweet potato pie is my favorite! I'll have to try this version.
Happy Thanksgiving, guys. I hope it’s wonderful and full of friends and family
I’m always glad to learn more, especially about things I have never experienced. I have seen it referred to, but don’t remember learning what the word means. Thanks for taking the time to share what you know!
As for Sweet Potatoes, I love them. Always prefer to slow roast until some of the sugars drip down and bubble on the baking sheet. Smells wonderful, and is a useful indicator that the potatoes are properly done. In recent years I have been cutting down on added sugars, but sweet potato casserole is not the place to begin a life of austerity, lol! Gotta have some fun, right??
Thanks! I’ll try it with Sorghum. I’m so glad I’m in Amish Territory to get these goodies.
The pie looks fantastic! We once in a while had sweet potato pie to finish off a ham dinner.
Sweet potato is my holiday pie of choice, but we ate sweet potato pudding throughout fall and winter.
They're cheap and plentiful in VA. Mom would add coconut and/or crushed pineapple to her puddings. No worries about soggy crust!
Lets hear it for licking the whisk!!!! I am thinking that custard paired with ginger snap cookies would be a great way to avoid making pie crust..
I'm loving you cleaning that bowl and eating what was left over in it because we ( me and my siblings) never left anything in my mother's bowl, 😂❤
I make it with the traditional pumpkin pie spices, molasses (my husband loves molasses), bourbon and bourbon vanilla, that I have made (bourbon and vanilla beans soaked and shaken). We like sweet potato pie more than pumpkin pie. I'll have to remember that about the bottom crust.
This is a tough one. I never know if people are mistaken or if they've just made something up that they like.
No doubt that vanilla beans soaked in Bourbon (whiskey) is great; but that's not actually what 'Bourbon Vanilla' is.
The House of Bourbon is a French aristocratic family (founded in the 1200s) that owned an island; Île Bourbon in the Indian Ocean. For a time early in the commercial production of vanilla (1850s) it was said that the most fragrant Vanilla was grown there. It was one of the first 'branded' products: Bourbon Vanilla, and vanilla grown there is still highly prized today. But it wasn't / isn't made with American Bourbon Whiskey, which is a common misconception. But if you and your family love it - that's great!
Yes in New York, we had sweet potato pie and Bean pie.
I checked, Glen, and there is a recipe for carrot pie on your channel that is 4 years old. It's called "1930 Carrot Pie Recipe" . I live in Ohio, and sweet potato pie is more of a southern dish in the United States, at least that's my experience. I never knew there was such a thing as sweet potato pie until I was in my twenties or maybe even 30's. We only ever had pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving.
My family is African-American and my grandparents are from the south. For whatever reason sweet potato pies tend to be more prominent during the holidays than pumpkin pies-I actually never had pumpkin pie until I was an adult. We didn’t really use maple syrup much either, so I would be really interested to see how it tastes in a sweet potato pie.
Fascinating about aserum, however you spell it. Bitterness has a beauty all its own.
Definitely gonna try it
My favourite way to eat sweet potatoes - bake them really well and then eat them cold. They are so amazingly sweet.
I don't have pizza stone or baking steel, but have no problems with soggy bottoms. Heat a sheet pan when preheating the oven and put the pie tin on top.
I make this now as a pudding. Double the recipe . Skip the crust and have dish in a warm water bath while cooking.
Chef John has an interesting pumpkin pie recipe using Chinese 5 spice blend (among other things.)
Looks delicious
Thank you. Loved the happy dance.
At the end Julie mentioned Date Custard. I'm intrigued as growing up in the southern United States I've never heard of this.
But yes, we had sweet potato pie. It's oddly the only custard we use margarine instead of butter because it oddly had a richer flavour.
Here's our Date custard recipe: ua-cam.com/video/cJaa6YZtuJw/v-deo.html
@@GlenAndFriendsCookingthank you!!!
That is a good looking pie. I have no doubt it tasts amazing. 😋
I am one of those people who is just not a fan of "sweet" sweet potato dishes; the tastiest way I eat sweet potatoes is to treat them like regular potatoes and make "loaded baked sweet potatoes." Absolutely fantastic! But I tip my hat to those who eat their sweet potatoes this way 😂
Interesting twist!
Glen you are my muse!😂 always giving me something to feed my next ADHD research side-quest/rabbit hole.
Honestly how would I befuddle my friends or family with random facts if I didn’t watch your channel! 😊
Ps. thanks for your research and delicious hard work.
Sweet-Potato Pecan Pie with Chantilly cream… The Paul Prudhomme recipe. Now I want it.
Seeing how you tap your maple trees and what you do with the sap would make a very interesting video.
Here you go: ua-cam.com/video/72ZuRISfzBc/v-deo.html
I am a child of the southern US. We didn't have pumpkin pie. Sweet potato pie remains my favorite. We also make what we call hand pies out of sweet potatoes. No pie crust? We call that sweet potato soufflé. No Thanksgiving here is complete without sweet potatoes. Thanks for this reminder that the season is upon us!
It's our Thanksgiving this weekend
@@GlenAndFriendsCooking Happy Thanksgiving Glen and Julie.
@@GlenAndFriendsCooking Happy Thanksgiving!
Looks delicious!
Love carrot pie and also carrot cookies!
It is, indeed, time for pies! As always, thank you Glen and Julie!
I like a good sweet potato pie over pumpkin, but for my all time sugar high, sweet potato pecan is the best. That sweet custard with the pecan filling on top can't be beat.
Thanks for reminding me about the pecans, that was a favorite when I was working in Memphis!
Sweet recipe! Very interesting to learn about the acerum, I've never heard of it before!
Happy Thanksgiving Glen and Julie!
Butternut squash instead of pumpkin one year, my mom liked, but most want pumpkin
My MIL made hers in a sheet pan so everyone would get at least a little bit. Always a popular dessert. May try your version with the sorghum. I don't care for maple. See how it goes.💝
Maple syrup comes in 250ml bottles in Australia. So to see that hugh jug was amazing.
I'm not a fan of most sweet potato pies I've tried. They are usually more custard than sweet potato. This looks much better. 😊
I'm terrible at making pie crust so I make a cookie crumb crust out of cheap oatmeal cookies or ginger snaps. I put them in the food processor and pulse until I have a coarse crumb. You'll need about 1&1/2 cups. Add a stick of melted butter.
Press into the bottom of a buttered 9x9 baking dish. Add your sweet potato filling and bake for about an hour at 350.
we always had a sweetpotato mash in a casserole dish with marshmellow on top. brown sugar. butter. milk for the mash.
I love sweet potatoes but not sweet potato pie. I've never made one, though; they've all been bought from a grocery store bakery. I need to try this sometime.