[Sca-cooks] yams/sweet potatoes

[Betsy Marshall]

Not this time, I bought genuine (small) pumpkins at the farmers market,
gutted and chopped then par-boiled till the meat can be scraped off the
peel. Got many compliments on the finished product!(pumpkin/potato soup)
Would have thought they would know the difference between yams and sweet
potatoes but I guess not.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:sca-cooks-bounces at ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of Avraham haRofeh of
Sudentur
Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 6:18 AM
To: Cooks within the SCA
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] yams/sweet potatoes

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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