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"Availability Year round Peak Season October through January Buying Tips There are many varieties of sweet potatoes. What most Americans are familiar with is a rather sweet, moist, orange-fleshed potato with very dark skin. When this variety was introduced in the 1930s, it was marketed as a Louisiana &amp;quot;yam,&amp;quot; though it&amp;#039;s not a yam at all. To make matters more confusing, in the rest of the world, sweet potatoes have rather dry, slightly sweet, white or yellow flesh.  Look for sweet potatoes that feel heavy for their size and have no bruises, soft spots, or sign of sprouting. Handle them gently; they bruise easily. To Store Sweet potatoes are quite perishable. Store in a cool, dark place up to one week. Do not refrigerate. To Prepare Scrub under cold running water.  To Cook Sweet potatoes are often treated like their savory (white) cousins and mashed, saut\u00E9ed, fried, or turned into pancakes. To bake sweet potatoes, preheat oven to 450 degrees F and bake on a cookie sheet until tender, 45 minutes to 1 hour. Get more recipes for sweet potatoes in our Recipe Search. \u2014 Excerpted with permission from The Good Housekeeping Cookbook "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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