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Joen's Recipes Holiday Sweet Potatoes Ingredients 3-? cups mashed sweet potatoes ? cup sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla ? cup milk ? cup softened butter Topping: ? cup brown sugar 1/3 cup flour ? cup melted butter Directions Cook (or microwave) potatoes until they are soft. After cooking, remove potato skins. Place all sweet potato mixture ingredients into a mixing bowl: sweet potatoes, sugar, eggs, vanilla, milk, and softened butter. Blend the ingredients well. (If you like a very soft consistency, you may choose to use a food processor instead of a mixer.) Place the sweet potato mixture evenly into a greased 2 quart Pyrex dish (or other similar baking dish). In a small bowl, mix together the topping ingredients: brown sugar, flour, and melted butter. Spread the topping over the sweet potato mixture. Cover the top of the dish (e.g. foil or dish lid). Bake the covered sweet potatoes in a preheated 275 degree oven for 50 minutes. Then bake uncovered for ten more minutes. Serve immediately. Notes I have never been fond of sweet potatoes, so I have successfully avoided eating them during most my adult life. I had even gotten away with not having them on our Thanksgiving menu for a decade or two. However, all that changed a few years ago when my daughter's husband spent his first Thanksgiving with us. Having moved here from Philadelphia a few months earlier, he was naturally homesick. He asked if it would be possible if we could have his mom's sweet potato dish included on the menu. He not only obtained his mom's recipe, but he offered to buy the sweet potatoes, and then make the dish for Thanksgiving dinner. With an offer like that, how could I refuse? This holiday dish was definitely a hit! It was so very tasty that not a morsel was left, and guests clamored for more. Even I became an immediate sweet potato fan. Now this dish continues to be on our Thanksgiving menu, and we all eagerly await its appearance again this year. If luck is still with me, Mike will offer to do the honors again, as he has every year. So, thanks to Mike and his mother Marie Pat from Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania for this great Thanksgiving recipe: Go back to recipes