For many Americans, sweet potatoes are a traditional part of Thanksgiving dinner. If you are from another country, you can not familiar with this vegetable. Here is what you might like to know.
Sweet potatoes, especially the soft kind are often called "yams", but they are not really the same. Yams are originally from Africa and Asia. Yams) are native to South America (but they are warm now grown in many other regions. Long ago, African slaves inNorth and South America began calling sweet potatoes "yams." Today, most people do in the U.S. and Canada are the same. But true yams are very rare in America. You can usually find them only in stores that sell imported foods.
Sweet potatoes, white potatoes can be cooked in the same manner. Unlike white potatoes, they can be used for pie filling. This is very popular in the southern states.
For Thanksgiving, sweet potatoes are usually specially prepared. One way to do thisis:
Bake
Cut them in half
Make the most of the insides
Mix the insides with butter, spices, sugar, and perhaps
Reset the insides of the skins
The butter and bread crumbs on
Bake them again until the breadcrumbs brown
Some recipes tell you the sweet potatoes put marshmallows on. The Americans have strong feelings about this. For example, the joy of cooking, a famous cookbook by Irma Rombauer and Marion Becker, said: "This is aMatter of taste, or - in our very distorted picture - of it. Deficiency "Diane Morgan, author of The Thanksgiving Table, said:" I can not bring myself to write such a recipe, because I do not like the sticky-sweet topping. "
For other people, but it would not feel like Thanksgiving without marshmallows on the sweet potatoes. The important thing is to cook, you and your family like best like. Some other sweet toppings you can try are, brown sugar, syrup andFruit.
If you think Americans feel strongly about sweet potatoes, wait until Christmas, when they start talking about fruitcake.
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