Ignames

Yams

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Countess Morphy

Published 1935

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Ignames. There are a number of different kinds of yams-and sweet potatoes which grow in the West Indies, the yampois, which comes from Haiti, being one of the best; but the native method of cooking them is always the same—roasting the yams in hot ashes, a practice which is more or less universal whenever sweet potatoes or yams are to be found. In the West Indies the natives select special kinds