Potato Bread
From mystic_river1 16 years ago
- 40 minutes to make
- Serves 2
From:Good Housekeeping Illustrated Cookbook And they ask why do we make potato bread? And with mashed 'taters? Beacuse it is dense and satisfying and no way to explain it..it's just that it is potato bread!
Ingredients
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- 2 tablespoons sugar shopping list
- 4 teaspoons salt shopping list
- 2 packages active dry yeast shopping list
- 8 cups(about) all-purpose flour shopping list
- 1/2 cup water shopping list
- 1 1/2 cups mashed potatoes shopping list
- 1 1/2 cups milk shopping list
- 1/4 cup butter -- or margarine shopping list
- 2 eggs shopping list
How to make it
- In large bowl, combine sugar, salt, yeast and 1 1/2 cups flour.
- In 2-quart saucepan, mix water, mashed potatoes and 1 1/2 cups milk; add butter; over low heat, heat until very warm (120* to 130*F) stirring often.
- Butter does not need to melt.
- With mixer at low speed, gradually beat liquid into dry ingredients just until blended; beat in eggs.
- At medium speed, beat 2 minutes, occasionally scraping bowl. Beat in 1 cup flour to make a thick batter;
- continue beating 2 minutes, scraping bowl often.
- Stir in enough additional flour (about 3 1/4 cups) to make a soft dough.
- On well-floured surface, knead dough about 10 minutes, until smooth and elastic, kneading in about 1 1/2 cups flour.
- Shape into ball; place in greased large bowl, turning to grease top. Cover; let rise until doubled, about 1 hour.
- Punch down dough; turn onto lightly floured surface; cut in half; cover;
- let rest 15 minutes.
- Grease two 2-quart round, straight-sided, shallow casseroles. Shape 1 piece of dough into ball; place in casserole.
- Cut 2 parallel slashes on top.
- Repeat. Cover; let rise until doubled; about 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 400*F Brush each loaf with milk.
- Bake 40 minutes or until well browned and loaves sound hollow when tapped with fingers.
- Remove loaves to cool on wire racks.
The Rating
Reviewed by 6 people-
I use to love this bread...nice post
peetabear
in mid-hudson valley loved it
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Bet I could let my kitchen aide knead this for me. Great post, thanks for sharing it joymarie
henrie
in Savannah loved it
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I have been looking for a good potato bread recipe, and come to find out you had it all along. M-M-M. You deserve a 5 for this recipe.Thank you for sharing, my friend...Cheryl
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in Santa Nella loved it
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