Alright Southerners - put up or shut up.

[Bunny]

I need advice on sweet potato pie. I'm making my very first one right now. The recipe I'm using says to put 10.5 ounces of mini-marshmallows on top of the pie, for the last ten minutes of baking. A 10.5 ounce bag is a LOT of mini-marshmallows!!! Can this be right? Should I just follow the damn recipe and quit worrying about it? I need to know something within the next 36 minutes - Help!

[tinfoil tiaras]

1. lots of marshmellows are yummy

:9 I say follow the recipe...

[texanwitch]

2. I don't like sweet potato pie.

Just find a good recipe and go for it.

Good luck.

[eyesroll]

3. Why not just eyeball it?

Since it's on the top of the pie, it's not an essential baking ingredient; it's just garnish (you won't be screwing up the chemistry of the crust or anything by futzing with the quantities).

Then again, I'm from the north, and I don't put marshmallows on my sweet potatoes (although I'll eat them that way if offered) so what do I know?

[Haole Girl]

4. Wall-to-wall marshmallows is what you need!!

It should coat the whole thing...and be just slightly brown, but not burned (it's truly an art form).

Hope this helps! :hi:

[Maddy McCall]

5. I don't put any marshmallows on mine. Edit to add...

I put it in the oven with a naked top. Most people I know do the same thing, too.

Are you making two pies, or one pie?


ETA: I live in Mississippi, and I've never seen a sweet potato pie with marshmallows on top. I've seen m'mallows on top of sweet potato casseroles, but never on a sweet potato pie.

Can you share your recipe--I'd like to see the recipe that calls for marshmallows as a topping on sweet potato pie.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

6. lots of marshmallows. LOTS.

notthat i've ever cooked it but as an experienced consumer, i've never found myself wishing for less marshmallow:)

[Courtesy Flush]

7. Recipes are like scriptures

They're not intended to be taken too literally, and only the most dull among us would do so. They are guides, not instructions.

My wife is a Cajun. Her parents still speak French. She learned a lot from her mother. When she wants to cook something new, she reads four or five different recipes for that dish to get a feel for how it's done, in general. Then she sets the cookbooks aside, and cooks based on what seemed like the best ideas from all that she read. It's always worked for her.

I'm one of those dull people who have to follow the recipe, but I think that if I cooked more often I'd come to appreciate that recipes are not to be taken too literally.

In other words, put as many marshmallows as you like.

[trof]

11. Also Cajun-by-marriage. My wife also "cooks by ear".

Or "tongue" I guess.
Cajun out of Lake Charles and NOLA by way of Orange, Texas.
She can taste a dish in a restaurant and pretty much come up with a close match at home.
"It's got (this) and (that) and a little (the other). I think they carmelized the onions almost black. But they didn't cook the garlic at all. That was added after."

And I've almost never known her to follow a cookbook recipe exactly.
"Wouldn't this be better with some rosemary in it?"
Are we in-laws or something?
;-)

[Penndems]

8. Honey, I have NEVER put marshmallows on top of sweet potato pie

They go into my sweet potato casserole (along with brown sugar and pecans), but not on my pie.

You can leave 'em off, and just serve it warm with whipped cream or ice cream a la mode. :)

[eppur_se_muova]

9. While you're at it, post a recipe for persimmon pie -- please?

I just realized there is a persimmon tree on campus, and it's getting close to first frost ...

[trof]

10. This good ol' boy puts sweet potato pie right up (down?) there with

pumpkin pie.
I just have no taste for either.
It does sound a lot like the candied sweet potatoes with marshmellow topping that granny used to make.
Like having your dessert right along with your dinner.
Best of luck, anyway.
Give me a call when you're making pecan (puh-KAHN) pies.
yum
;-)

[NewWaveChick1981]

12. You can never put TOO many marshmallows on sweet potatoes...

:rofl: They're yummy!!! But you can adjust them to your taste.. :P