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Burke’s Sweet Potato Casserole
By John | November 27, 2008
Burke Forney Hill is one of my best friends. She is the wife of another one of my best friends, Curtis
“Skipper” Hill (a.k.a SkipperDbug). Today will be my 23rd year of celebrating Thanksgiving with them. Burke and Skipper are the finest cooks I know, and when it comes to southern cooking, forgetaboutit…
I on the other hand, am one of the worst cooks on the planet. However, today I am going to try a little blogging experiment. I am going to make the sweet potato casserole today using Burke’s recipe. I will also try to solicit Burke and Skipper’s honest comments.
Anyways, I hope you all have a wonderful day today, holiday celebration or not. It looks like a fine day to be thankful.
Burke’s Sweet Potato Casserole
- 3 Cups of canned sweet potatoes. You need to mash up the potatoes then fill three cups.
- 1 Cup of sugar
- 1/2 Cup of butter (Real butter – come on it’s Thanksgiving)
- 1/4 Cup of Milk (None of that lowfat crap)
- 2 Eggs
- 1 Tblsp of vanilla extract
Mix up and put in a backing dish (9 x 13 glass dish is best).
For the Topping…
Take a plastic bag and mix in the following ingredients:
- 1 Cup of brown sugar
- 1/2 Cup of flour
- 1 Cup of chopped up pecans ( just break’em up a little bit. For example, just break them in your hand.)
- 1/3 Cup of butter. The butter should be soft to mix up well with the other ingredients. Not melted, just room temperature.
Mix all the topping ingredients in a plastic bag so that the butter and other junk mixes in well.
Spread the toppings on top of the sweet potato mixture.
Bake for 25 minutes at 350.
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December 1st, 2008 at 6:42 pm
[...] check out the sweet potato casserole recipe John mentioned, and, as I mentioned, Royer’s out in Round Top, Texas – damn good food and [...]
June 30th, 2010 at 10:20 pm
My wife and I went Auburn with Burke and Skipper and lost contact with them and would like to get in touch with them. If you could please pass this on to them, I would be grateful and I think they would also thank you. I think everybody in Alabama had a version of that same recipe. My mother swore me to family secrectry. Burke’s mother probably said the same thing. We lost contact with them when they left Pensacola way back when.
Thank you, Buford Sewell