Cooking Candied Yams

candied yams
The sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the family Convolvulaceae. Its large, starchy, sweet tasting tuberous roots are an important root vegetable (Purseglove, 1991; Woolfe, 1992). The young leaves and shoots are sometimes eaten as greens.

cooking
The practice or skill of preparing food
(cook) someone who cooks food
(cook) prepare a hot meal; "My husband doesn't cook"
Food that has been prepared in a particular way
The process of preparing food by heating it
the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife"