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Shadowdog <cmargerum@earthlink.net> wrote:

> 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.

That's interesting. I find the lighter colored sweet potatoes to
taste sweeter. I don't know if the color in them adds something to the
flavor like peaches, nectarines and cranberries (I hate the white
versions, they just taste sweet and insipid), but they taste better and
richer to me when they have the color in them.

Regards,
Ranee @ Arabian Knits

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