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Mashed Sweet Potato

Ingredients

1. Rinse the sweet potatoes, peel them, and slice them into 5-millimeter rounds. Let them soak in a bowl of water for two or three minutes.
2. 
   Drain the sweet potatoes and place them in a saucepan filled with water and a gardenia nut for color. Bring to the boil, reduce the heat, and continue cooking.
3. Once the sweet potatoes are tender (when you can easily pierce them with a chopstick or fork), turn off the heat and drain away the liquid. (You can drain the liquid directly from the saucepan using the lid to hold in the sweet potato slices.)
4. Cover the saucepan. Gently shake the saucepan back and forth to soak up any remaining liquid.
5. 
   Mash the sweet potatoes. (Do this while they are hot.)
6. 
   Mix in the butter, then the sugar, and finally the condensed milk.