zxcvbob wrote:
> 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

Here's the truth behind the sweet potato/yam name.

http://www.foodreference.com/html/lo...-potatoes.html

It was all a marketing ploy from about 70 years ago or more in Louisiana.