Joe’s Potato Bread

Name: Joe’s Potato Bread
Prep time: 2 h
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 2 h 40 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1 egg; 20 g sunflower seeds; 50 g raisins; sea salt; 2 tbsp milk; 2 egg yolks; 300 g self-raising flour; a bunch of flat-leaf parsley, chopped; 90 g butter, melted; 350 g floury potatoes, washed

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
3 hr

Appears in

The French Kitchen

By Joanne Harris and Fran Warde

Published 2002

About

This is not a true bread as we are used to it. It is denser, because of the potato, and contains no yeast. It will rise only marginally: don’t expect miracles. But it makes a dense and comforting bread, perfect with soup on a chilly winter’s day.

Ingredients

350 g floury potatoes, washed
a bunch of flat-leaf parsley, chopped
90

Europe
France
Bread
Mediterranean
Winter
Vegan

Method

Heat the oven to 200°C/gas 6.

Pierce the potatoes with a knife several times and bake for 40 minutes until soft inside. Set the potatoes a