Fadge or Potato Bread

Name: Fadge or Potato Bread
Cuisine: Irish
Ingredients: 900 g unpeeled ‘old’ potatoes, e.g. Golden Wonders or Kerr’s Pinks; 25–50 g butter, diced; 1 egg, beaten; 900 g unpeeled ‘old’ potatoes, e.g. Golden Wonders or Kerr’s Pinks; 900 g unpeeled ‘old’ potatoes, e.g. Golden Wonders or Kerr’s Pinks; creamy milk; fine sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; fine sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; 40 g plain flour; bacon fat, clarified butter or olive oil, if frying; bacon fat, clarified butter or olive oil, if frying; bacon fat, clarified butter or olive oil, if frying

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The New Ballymaloe Bread Book

By Darina Allen

Published 2023

About

In Ulster, people are passionate about fadge or potato bread. It can be cooked on a griddle, in a frying pan or in the oven. A little leftover mashed potato can be, and often was, added to soda bread.

Ingredients

900 g unpeeled ‘old’ potatoes, e.g. Golden Wonders or Kerr’s Pinks
1 egg, beaten
25–50

Europe
Ireland
Bread

Method

Bake or boil the potatoes in their jackets until soft, then pull off the skins and mash right away. Add the beaten egg, butter and flour. Season with lots of salt and freshly ground black pepper, adding a few drops of creamy milk if the mixture is too stiff. Taste and correct the seasoning.

Tip out onto a floured surface and shape into an 18cm round that’s 2.5cm thick, then cut into eig