Simple Sweet Potato Casserole
"A Thanksgiving tradition. The original recipe came from a small, local weekly newspaper. Prep time includes peeling and cooking the sweet potatoes. Enjoy!"
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Yields:
-
1 casserole
- Serves:
- 12
ingredients
- 4 1⁄2 cups sweet potatoes, cooked and mashed
- 1⁄2 cup butter, melted
- 1⁄3 cup whole milk
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs, slightly beaten
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 1⁄2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1⁄3 cup butter
- 1 cup pecans, chopped
- 1 tablespoon vegetable shortening, Crisco
directions
- Preheat oven to 350-degrees F. -- then, grease a 9" x 13" baking dish with the Crisco.
- In a large bowl, mix together the mashed sweet potatoes, the 1/2 cup melted butter, milk, granulated sugar, vanilla extract, and the eggs. Spread this mixture into the greased baking dish.
- In a medium-sized mixing bowl, mix together the brown sugar and the flour. Cut in the 1/3 cup of butter until the mixture is crumbly, then add the pecans and stir them in as well. Sprinkle this blend over the sweet potatoes.
- Bake for 25 minutes in the 350-degree F. oven, or until it is golden brown.
- Allow this dish to "rest" for about 10 minutes prior to serving.
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<p>I am a retired State Park Resort Manager/Ranger. <br /><br />Anyway, as to my years in the State Park System (retired now), I was responsible for 4 restaurants/dining rooms on my park and my boss at Central Headquarters said I should spend less time in my kitchens and more time tending to my park budget. I spent 25 years in those kitchens and worked with some really great chefs over those years, (and some really awful ones too!) <br /><br />I spent THOUSANDS of hours on every inch of that park and adjacent state forest (60,000 acres) and sometimes I miss it. But mostly I miss being in that big beautiful resort lodge kitchen. I miss my little marina restaurant down on the Ohio River too. I served the best Reuben Sandwich (my own recipe -- posted on 'Zaar as The Shawnee Marina Reuben Sandwich) in both the State of Ohio and the Commonwealth of Kentucky down there and sold it for $2.95. Best deal on the river! <br /><br />They (friends and neighbors) call my kitchen The Ospidillo Cafe. Don't ask me why because it takes about a case of beer, time-wise, to explain the name. Anyway, it's a small galley kitchen with a Mexican motif (until my wife catches me gone for a week or so), and it's a very BUSY kitchen as well. We cook at all hours of the day and night. You are as likely to see one of my neighbors munching down over here as you are my wife or daughter. I do a lot of recipe experimentation and development. It has become a really fun post-retirement hobby -- and, yes, I wash my own dishes. <br /><br />Also, I'm the Cincinnati Chili Emperor around here, or so they say. (Check out my Ospidillo Cafe Cincinnati Chili recipe). SKYLINE CHILI is one of my four favorite chilis, and the others include: Gold Star Chili, Empress Chili and, my VERY favorite, Dixie. All in and around Cincinnati. Great stuff for cheap and I make it at home too. <br /><br />I also collect menus and keep them in my kitchen -- I have about a hundred or so. People go through them and when they see something that they want, I make it the next day. That presents some real challenges! <br /><br />http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/parks/parks/shawnee.htm</p>
