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Article: KITCHEN DETECTIVE: ; Great sweet spuds need attention; Sweet potatoes best baked first; use hand masher
- Article from:
- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- November 14, 2001
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SOMETIMES the simplest recipe holds the most secrets. This is
certainly true with regular mashed potatoes - the difference between
great mashed spuds and lousy ones hinges on keen attention to
detail.
Since few of us even use a recipe for mashing sweet potatoes, I
wondered if technique also matters here as well, whether one could
make a Thanksgiving favorite into something extraordinary. I would
have to start my investigations with the potatoes themselves.
The first rule of buying sweet potatoes is to realize that
virtually everything labeled as a "yam" is, in fact, a sweet potato.
A yam is a large, tubular, white-fleshed root vegetable that comes
from Asia. They aren't orange- or ...