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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
Yams and sweet potatoes are very similar. Interesting, though, I have never heard of a yam pie. Wish my grandmother were living, so I could ask her why not.
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I grew up in the south and candied yams was far more common among my relatives than sweet potato pie. I have no clue how my mother made it, other than she probably followed her mother's recipe, but it was baked in a casserole dish. It was a side dish, not a desert.
What I have been led to believe is there are (at least) two major varieties of sweet potatoes: the brownish skin kind commonly called "sweet potatoes" and the purplish-skinned one sold as "yams". I have read true yams are not commonly grown in the US and "yams" sold in the grocery store are the purple skin sweet potato - but the two kinds don't taste the same.