Potato and Herb Plaited Bread

Name: Potato and Herb Plaited Bread
Ingredients: 1 egg, beaten; ¼ pint (150 ml) milk; 1 sachet fast-action dried yeast; Poppy or sesame seeds; 1 heaped tablespoon fresh chopped herbs; 2 oz (50 g) butter; 12 oz (350 g) plain flour; 1 teaspoon salt; 4 oz (110 g) potatoes

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Potato Year

By Lucy Madden

Published 2015

About

Use any fresh herbs available in the garden – parsley, sage, thyme, marjoram – either mixed together or with one taste alone.

Ingredients

4 oz (110 g) potatoes
12 oz (350

Starter
May
Vegetarian

Method

Peel and cook the potatoes, then purée. Stir the flour and salt in a bowl, rub in the butter and then stir in the yeast and the herbs.

Add the milk to the potatoes and, making a well in the centre of the flour mixture, add the potatoes and mix to a soft dough. Knead well, then place in a clean, oiled bowl and leave to rise until doubled in size.

Knead again, divide into three eq