Name: Basic Potato Bread
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 100 g (4 oz) warm mashed potato (made without any butter, milk or cream); 1 egg, beaten, plus a little extra beaten egg to glaze; 1 teaspoon salt; 450 g (1 lb) strong white flour; 50 g (2 oz) unsalted butter, cut into small pieces; 150 ml (¼ pint) lukewarm full-fat milk; 25 g (1 oz) fresh yeast; 40 g (1½ oz) caster sugar

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Passion for Potatoes

By Paul Gayler

Published 2010

About

This versatile bread has good keeping qualities and can be used as you would any white loaf. I like it as a base for Welsh rarebit and also use it to make Cuban Bread Pudding.

Ingredients

25 g (1 oz) fresh yeast
40 g (1½

Method

Warm the oven to 125°C/240°F/gas mark ½. Put the yeast, half the sugar and a little of the milk in a small bowl and mix until dissolved. Put the flour in a bowl and warm briefly in the oven. Rub in the butter, then stir in the remaining sugar, the warm mashed potato and the salt. Pour in the remaining milk, the yeast mixture and the beaten egg and mix to a soft, pliable dough, adding a little w

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