Majorcan Potato Buns

Name: Majorcan Potato Buns (Coca de patatas)
Yield: Makes 8
Ingredients: 120 g/4 oz white sugar; 1 large egg; 225 g/8 oz unbleached white bread flour; 15 g/½ oz fresh yeast; 150 ml/5 fl oz tepid milk; 225 g/8 oz potatoes; 30 g/1 oz lard

Coca de patatas

Preparation info

Makes
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Making Bread at Home

By Tom Jaine

Published 2005

About

The writer Elizabeth Carter describes in her book Majorcan Food and Cookery how these light buns for morning coffee or teatime are often made with the pulp of sweet potatoes but may also be done with the ordinary potatoes that we can buy everywhere.

Ingredients

225 g/8 oz potatoes
15 g/½

Bread

Method

Bake the potatoes in their skins, then peel them, discarding the skins. Mash the potato pulp with a fork.
Cream the yeast in the tepid milk. Mix the flour and potato pulp in a bowl with the sugar. Rub in the lard.
Make a well in the centre and add the yeast liquid. Add the egg and mix to a dough. Adjust the texture by adding more milk or more flour. P