Baking Bread.

Potato bread.  I am kind of addicted to baking it right now, playing with the recipe.  So easy. 

Many people talk about the baking of bread as a spiritual experience.  I have to agree.  There is something powerful and peaceful in the kneading of the dough, the patience it takes to wait for the dough to rise, the fragrant aroma of the baking loaf, and the savoring of the warm bread with friends.   I will continue to do this, for sanity's sake.

Got the original recipe here.

I've played with some of the ingredients and their proportions...

• 1 potato, peeled and diced  [Yukon Gold works and tastes great!]
• 2 1/2 cups water
• 2 (.25 ounce) packages active dry yeast
• 6 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 T dark brown sugar
• 1 T white sugar
• 2 T butter
• 2 pinches of salt
• 2 T all-purpose flour

Enjoy! 

Comments

[Mom and Dad]

The aroma is wafting its way home ... and, will be be treated to Potato Rolls for Thanksgiving dinner? Sounds wonderful!

[April]

I looove potato rolls. Care to share the recipe? I'll trade my super-easy, best-ever tomato soup recipe!

[April]

Is the 2 1/2 cups water correct? The allrecipes version uses 1 1/2 cups, but the other amounts seem the same.

[Josh]

2 1/2 is correct...I adjusted that because the 1 1/2 seemed to boil off too quickly.

As the original recipe says, if you need to add more water to the potato mash, that's an option, too. Does that make sense?

[April]

Yup, thanks!

[meredith]

Do you have a favorite recipe for pizza dough?

[sanderai]

I have so enjoyed baking this fall as well. I just bought a book the other day about making bread as holiday gifts and I'm quite looking forward to blessing people with something that brings such joy (both in the making and in the eating).