Originally Posted by
DaylilyDawn
I use my pumpkin bread recipe and substitute sweet potato for the pumpkin.
I thought everyone did, and there are several other veggies that taste like pumpkins in pies, and probably cakes.
My little WV Grandma used to use anything she had on hand for "Punkin Pies". Such as squash, sweet taters, carrots, anything that would fill in the pie. With the milk and sugar and eggs and all the spices, if she called it a Punkin Pie then
we ate it and was grateful for it. Especially good in mid winter with the snow falling straight down and all the farm work
done for the day, with the kitchen windows steamed up from heat of the old wood stove....those were the days, and my
poor overworked Grandma was thrilled to live her old age in a modern house!!