Potato Bread

Name: Potato Bread
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons salt; 2 lb (900 g) plain flour; 1 sachet fast-action dried yeast; ¾ pint (400 ml) milk; 8 oz (225 g) raw potato, peeled; 1 egg, beaten; 3 tablespoons buttermilk

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Potato Year

By Lucy Madden

Published 2015

About

I have adapted this from a recipe published in The Bread Book by Audrey Ellison. This differs from most bread recipes that contain potatoes because here the potato is added raw.

Ingredients

8 oz (225 g) raw potato, peeled
¾ pint (400

Bread
Vegetarian
February
Christmas

Method

Bring the milk to the boil. Grate the potato and add it to the milk. Leave to cool until lukewarm.

Add the dried yeast to the sieved flour and salt and stir in the potato/milk mixture. Add the egg and buttermilk and knead well. Put in a covered bowl in a warm place to rise for 2–2½ hours. Knead again and divide between three well-greased bread tins. Leave to rise again for about 40 minu