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My review
Yummy Sweet Potato Casserole
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TINA B
"My family begs me to make this creamy baked dish every Thanksgiving and Christmas. What makes it so good is the pecan topping! Try it and I'm sure it will become your new tradition!"
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Ingredients
1 h servings 226Original recipe yields 12 servings (6 cups)
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Directions
{{model.addEditText}} Print- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Put sweet potatoes in a medium saucepan with water to cover. Cook over medium high heat until tender; drain and mash.
- In a large bowl, mix together the sweet potatoes, white sugar, eggs, salt, butter, milk and vanilla extract. Mix until smooth. Transfer to a 9x13 inch baking dish.
- In medium bowl, mix the brown sugar and flour. Cut in the butter until the mixture is coarse. Stir in the pecans. Sprinkle the mixture over the sweet potato mixture.
- Bake in the preheated oven 30 minutes, or until the topping is lightly brown.
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Footnotes
- Editor's Note:
- The Allrecipes magazine team, in preparing this recipe, came upon some alterations for this dish leading to a version they preferred, which is shared in the October/November 2014 issue. If you do not have that issue available to you, just triple the measures of the potato mixture ingredients above while leaving the topping measures as they are listed.
- Partner Tip
- Reynolds® Aluminum foil can be used to keep food moist, cook it evenly, and make clean-up easier.
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Most helpful positive review
11/19/2007
Superb!! OK..I changed some things...added some things..made it MUCH BETTER!!! I am from Louisiana...so I grew up eating sweet potatoes year round. But holiday time always mean Sweet potato C...
Most helpful critical review
8/21/2010
I made the recipe to test it out prior to making it for a party, and I just didn't find the recipe very enjoyable. Also, it felt more like I was baking then cooking. Something about the entire c...
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11/19/2007
Superb!! OK..I changed some things...added some things..made it MUCH BETTER!!! I am from Louisiana...so I grew up eating sweet potatoes year round. But holiday time always mean Sweet potato C...
11/15/2006
I am 50 years old and my family has made basically this same casserole all my life - it's very common in the South. A TIP: it's much more flavorful if you use baked sweet potatoes - baked for ...
11/13/2007
Yummy is right!! I made this today as a trial run for Thanksgiving (and this will be the dish I am taking!). I baked my potatoes (3-medium sized) for 1 hour. I cut them and placed into my food...
12/1/2006
I made this for the first time this Thanksgiving based on all the positive reviews here, and my family loved it! The recipe claims it serves 12, but we finished it off with only 8 people, so I'...
4/25/2006
I did the following....just microwaved my potatoes until fully cooked and then sliced them and placed cut side down into an 8X11 pan. I combinded the topping ingredients (flour, sugar, butter ...
11/16/2012
This is a wonderful recipe with a few minor tweeks... Start with baking 6 sweet potatos (ensure that they are the same size so the consistentcy is the same as they cook), instead of boiling. A...
4/9/2006
This was great. Roasting the yams whole in foil for an hour or so depending on the size of your yams gives awesome flavor instead of boiling... The family gobbled this up!!!
11/9/2007
This is a good start, but as the previuos reviewer suggested, you MUST roast the sweet potatos..it brings out all the natural sugars and sweetness. Now here is my addition...the last 15 minutes...
11/24/2000
Made this recipe twice with great results! Used brown sugar instead of white and added 1 tsp each of cinnamon and nutmeg. We like it cold, too!
