The Ex's Sweet Potato Pie

For the full effect, you should imagine this recipe being shouted by a male voice with a thick Dutch accent.

Take:

• A 1lb sweet potato,
• A 1/2 cup of butter, softened,
• A cup of white sugar,
• 1/2 a cup of milk,
• 2 eggs,
• 1/2 a tsp of ground nutmeg,
• 1/2 a tsp of ground cinnamon,
• A tsp of vanilla extract,
• And a 9" unbaked pie crust.

Boil Sweet potato whole, in skin, for 40-50 minutes, or until done.  Run cold water over the sweet potato and remove the skin.  Break apart the sweet potato in a bowl.  Add butter and mix well with mixer.  Stir in the sugar, milk, eggs, nutmeg, cinnamon, and vanilla extract.  Beat on medium speed until the mixture is smooth, and pour filling into an unbaked pie crust.

Bake at 350°F/175°C for 55-60 minutes, or until knife inserted in the center comes out clean.  The pie will puff up like a soufflé and then will sink down as it cools.

The rest of the song goes on about the various methods in which you can throw the pie (and the lyric sheet, which omits the above recipe, pairs this track with a picture of Bill Gates after his run-in with a member of les entarteurs).  However, that's really just a waste of food, in my opinion.

The pie itself isn't bad, tasting a lot like a sweeter version of a pumpkin one, and was probably a good use for the extra sweet potato I had lying around from the last time I made stew.  It does, however, have to rate as the oddest place I've ever taken a recipe from.