Double Potato Mash

Directions

1. 1
   Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
2. 2
   Loosely wrap the sweet potatoes individually in aluminium foil and cook in the oven for 1 1/2 hours or until cooked through.
3. 3
   Leave to cool in their foil parcels.
4. 4
   Meanwhile, peel and chop the white potatoes and cook them in salted water until tender; then drain and mash.
5. 5
   Open the sweet potato parcels carefully over the mashed white potatoes to catch all the juices that have leaked from them.
6. 6
   Still holding each sweet potato over the other potatoes, peel the skin away with your fingers and scoop out the flesh into the mash.
7. 7
   Add the oil and mace and beat the potatoes together very well with a wooden spoon adding salt and pepper, to taste.
8. 8
   Serve immediately.