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This is a Sweet Potato Pie Recipe from the White House Cook Book, circa 1913. It is really easy and actually tastes like sweet potato, not pumpkin pie.

http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/books/whitehouse/whit.pdf

One pound of steamed sweet potatoes finely mashed, two cups sugar, one cup cream, one-half cup butter, three well-beaten eggs, flavor with lemon or nutmeg and bake in pastry shell.

I bake at 350 degrees until center of the filling is set. About an hour.

You might want to reduce the sugar down to 1-1/4 cups because even at 1-1/2 cups it's really sweet.

You can microwave or bake the (whole) sweet potato instead of steaming. If you bake them the filling will come out darker because of the carmelization of the sweet potato sugars. I use a hand mixer to blend up the sweet potato because it helps to remove some of the string like fibers from the mashed pulp. A potato ricer also works for removing some of the fibers.