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gill_didsbury

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
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Location: Adelaide. South Austrlia

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 05 3:48 am Post subject: Potato bread recipe plaese?
Hi All, I saw on the rcipe overload post about potato bread. Does anyone have a recipe I could have for this please? CAn it be made in a bread maker? Thanks for your help Gill (Gillian)

sally_in_wales
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Joined: 06 Mar 2005
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 05 5:49 am Post subject:
I've made potato cakes before but not potato bread, so also would be interested in this. I have made sweet potato scones by adding a cup of very finely grated sweet potato to the scone mixture, and that was ok (gotta be fine or it won't cook). Is it the same idea and you just add grated spuds to the overall mixture?

thos

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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 05 7:19 am Post subject:

Much effort was wasted in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in trying to develop a bread that could be made from potatoes. New methods of growing them had been developed so that they had gone from an exotic vegetable to a potential staple for the poor. The problem was that the poor demanded bread, which needed relatively expensive corn.

Many attempts were made, but basic chemistry is against it - potatoes cannot make bread.

Many nice dishes can be made from potatoes, but potato bread is like chicory coffee. It can be quite nice but is a completely different animal from the real thing.

Bugs

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 10744

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 05 7:29 am Post subject:
The potato bread I referred to in that thread is, I suppose, Irish style - possibly more like Sally's potato cakes. It's thinnish and flat, like a Scotch pancake, quite solid, lovely (in my opinion) with butter, cheese, and most traditionally part of a fried breakfast. But I've never made my own, so I don't have a recipe

Joey

Joined: 03 Nov 2004
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 05 8:29 am Post subject:
bugs, Was the bread Ormo?? https://www.boxtyhouse.ie/new/reviews/review_evening_standard.htm https://www.irelandseye.com/aarticles/culture/recipes/cooking/tatofarl.shtm https://www.irelandseye.com/aarticles/culture/recipes/cooking/boxty.shtm The potato farl is the one you are talking about Bugs. An Ulster fry is not complete without it!!

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
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Location: East Midlands

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 05 10:35 am Post subject:

The one I use is here - https://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/r_0000001420.asp

It's delia, I'm afraid, but it is very nice. I wouldn't say it was a fluffy white loaf, but it is very quick and simple, and great with soup. I think of it as an all-in-one sandwich. I suppose its quite rustic, but i often do it for unexpected guests, as it doesn't take as long as real bread. No-ones complained so far, and there's never any left!

It's not just a potato bread, its got flour in too, so maybe it doesn't count. It doesn't need to rise and proove and what have you, so you probably couldn't make it in a breadmaker, but it doesn't take long to make by hand.

I shall now have to have this for lunch! I'm blaming bugs!

dougal

Joined: 15 Jan 2005
Posts: 7184
Location: South Kent

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 05 10:55 am Post subject:
I can second WW that Delia's Cheese & Potato Cake (from How to Vol 1) was indeed well worth doing, and ideal for making a meal out of soup. Now, does anyone agree with Nigella that using water in which potatoes have been boiled for breadmaking results in a loaf that keeps better? Certainly doesn't do it for me. (Olive oil, and using less yeast (and so a longer slower rise) do help...)

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