Baked yams

Sweet potatoes or southern yams (preferred because of their beautiful orange color) are delicious cooked whole. When baked, their thin skin puffs to a crisp finish and inside they will be fluffy yet firm and sweet. When cooking whole sweet potatoes or yams, wash, dry, and pierce their skin several times with a fork. Place them on a metal cookie sheet or in a baking pan and bake in a 400 degree preheated oven for 40-50 minutes or until fork tender. When you remove them from the oven slit down the middle with a knife and put them on a serving tray on your holiday table.