The Sweet Potato Casserole that Ruined Thanksgiving
serves 4 to 6
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Butter one 4-quart baking dish. | |
5 pounds canned sweet potatoes (2-40 oz. cans) | Heat, drain and mash sweet potatoes. |
2 cups white sugar | Combine with mashed sweet potatoes in the prepared baking dish. |
4 eggs | |
2/3 cup milk | |
2 teaspoons vanilla extract | |
2/3 cups melted butter | |
2/3 cups melted butter | Combine in a separate bowl. Sprinkle over the top of the sweet potato mixture. |
2 cups packed brown sugar | |
2 cups chopped pecans | |
2/3 cup all-purpose flour | |
| Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 35 minutes or until a knife inserted near the center comes out clean. | |
This recipe came from the old Parentsplace Current Debates board on iVillage.com, with the topic header “At a family dinner, are you obligated to make a regular recipe: AKA "That's NOT the way I make sweet potatoes!"” Alas, the link is no longer active. The story went that the poster had been ordered by her mother-in-law to “bring the sweet potatoes”, and had brought this casserole which was so well received that her inlaws went back for seconds and thirds. Her mother-in-law, whose sweet-potatoes were typically left uneaten, accused our heroine of “ruining Thanksgiving” by bringing the “wrong” kind of sweet-potatoes. The recipe has made it onto my Christmas Dinner table ever since, and the unanimous consensus of my guestsis that there is nothing “wrong” about it whatsoever.