[Sca-cooks] yams/sweet potatoes

[Avraham haRofeh of Sudentur]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 23:34:22 -0600, StefanliRous at austin.rr.com wrote:
>> Betsy
>> (who has acorn squash prepped for baking tomorrow and is
>> contemplating
>> pumpkin soup to go in the new pumpkin tureen-
>>
>> ps thankx for the sweet potato recipes- will yams also work?)
> If you are in the United States, what you are getting labeled as
> "yams"
> is likely to *be* sweet potatos. I think there are comments on this
> in
> the potatoes-smg files in the Florilegium.

And if you're buying canned pumpkin, what you're getting is probably Hubbard 
squash. The yellow-orange winter squashes are more or less interchangable 
for most purposes.

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