Shadowdog wrote:
> 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.


Traditional is whichever you have available :-) I would probably use
the dark orange or reddish ones if I had a choice.

Bob