Spell me backward and you get the fifth month of the calendar year. Serve me forward, boiled and whipped with brown sugar, and I am a rich orange tuber on your Thanksgiving plate. What am I?
Yam
'Yam' spelled backward is 'May', which is the fifth month of the year.
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