Sweet potato season has arrived and Black folks’ sweet potato pie tastes like warm family gatherings, sing-a-longs, and a legacy of the best holiday traditions handed down from one African American grandmother to her children.
Whether it’s the scent of cinnamon-sugar that sings sweet notes of “Home” like either version of the Wiz with Stephanie Mills on Broadway or Diana Ross on your TV screen. Or how the deliciousness of sweet potato pie reminds you of that sense of comfort that only grandmas house can bring. Either way – learning how to cook this sweet potato pie was a right of passion. Come get you some!
This old-fashioned Black folks’ Southern sweet potato pie recipe has been handed down by my grandmother, Mildred Cleopatra Hooper to all of her grandchildren and may be single-handedly responsible for most of our generations’ nostalgic family memories.
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