Sweet Potato Pie

This is the best recipe! I was my great grandmother's. However, if you don't want to cook the sweet potatoes from scratch, use canned sweet potatoes and mash them. You can even substitute canned pumpkin if you really want. I would suggest trying the sweet potatoes first.

2 cups peeled, cooked mashed sweet potatoes
2 eggs slightly beaten
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
2 tsp pumpkin pie spice (¼ tsp ginger, ¼ tsp nutmeg, 1 ½ tsp cinnamon
1 can evaporated milk Or light cream
1 cup finely chopped pecans
1- 9” single crust pie shell (do not prebake)

Add each ingredient in order shown to mixing bowl. Mix thoroughly after each addition.
Pour into pie crust. Bake at 425º for 15 minutes, then reduce temperature to 350º for an additional 40 minutes. Sprinkle top with chopped pecans and a cinnamon/sugar mix then bake for 5 minutes more or until knife inserted into center of pie comes out clean.