Sweet Potato Pie

Ingredients

• 2 pounds sweet potatoes
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 5 eggs
• 1 gill milk
• sugar
• 1 orange
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• pie crust

Instructions

1. Boil the sweet potatoes until soft.
2. Peel and mash the potatoes fine through a colander while hot.
3. Mash one tablespoon of butter into the hot potato.
4. Separate the yelks and whites of five eggs and beat them.
5. Add one gill of milk to the beaten eggs.
6. Combine the egg and milk mixture with the potato mixture.
7. Sweeten to taste.
8. Squeeze the juice of one orange into the filling and grate one-half of the peel into the liquid.
9. Stir in one-half teaspoon of salt to the potatoes.
10. Line a pie plate with one crust at the bottom only.
11. Pour the filling into the crust and bake quickly.