On Nov 9, 10:31*am, zxcvbob <zxcv...@charter.net> wrote:
> Shadowdog wrote:
> > Which is better for sweet potato pie, sweet potatoes or yams?
>
> As Jill said, anything you buy in the US (without going to a specialty
> market) called a "yam" is really a sweet potato. *The terms are used
> interchangeably.
>
> Bob

In the stores around here, they sell a yellow tuber which they call a
sweet potato and an orange tuber which they call a yam. I know they
are related and what we call yams are not true yams. But in cooking I
have found the yellow "sweet potato" to be drier without much
sweetness and the orange "yam" to be much sweeter. Which is the
traditional version used in making pies. I usually use the yellow
skinned one in cooking sweet potato and apple cassaroles, but think it
would be too dry for the pie.