On Nov 9, 12:06*pm, "jmcquown" <j_mcqu...@comcast.net> wrote:
> "Shadowdog" <cmarge...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
>
> news:e7a79de7-cb8d-4a0b-a24f-e6e893fb6395@g22g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> 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.
>
> The sweet potatoes I buy are definitely not yellow. *They're orange. *And
> sweet
>
> Jill

Those are what here out west are called "yams" and what are used in
those cans labeled candied yams in the stores. I agree they are sweet
and orange.

Thanks everybody. Kind of sounds like I should use the orange
critters be they called yams or sweet potatoes.