POTATO BREAD AND ROLLS
Recipe and photo: Gail Haselsteiner
FOOD LOVERS RECIPES
It’s a potato bread dough I used for the Kaiser’s as well.
Potato Bread ( Makes 1 large or 2 small loaves )
1 cup mashed potatoes. I used 2 potatoes cook as you would normally, don’t salt the water, mash with a press, let cool, add potato to a bowl and add the following:
2 eggs lightly beaten
125 g melted butter
1 teaspoon salt
In a jug take ½ cup milk add 2 tablespoons sugar, get milk to warm stage, but not hot in the microwave, dissolve the sugar, add 1 tablespoon instant yeast and stir.
Let it stand until it starts to froth.
Sift 3½ cups cake flour in a bowl. Add potato and yeast mixture to your mixing bowl, with dough hooks and slowly add the flour cup by cup until fully incorporated.
This took 3 mins on low speed then continue kneading the dough in your mixer for a further 5 mins on med speed. The dough is sticky, if you feel it is too sticky add a further tablespoon flour.
Turn out onto floured surface, form a round ball and place in a greased bowl for 1½ hours to rise.
I let it rise in the oven which was preheated to 80ºC and then turned off for 1 hour. Oven must be warm and not hot. When it has risen double in size knock back and divide dough into half or bake as 1 loaf.
Form into a rectangular shape and place in greased loaf tin/s and cover and let it rise a further 1 hour outside the oven.
It will rise to the rim of the baking dish. I made Kaiser bread rolls with the 2 nd half of the dough. Preheat oven to 180 ºC and bake for 25 to 30 mins. When bread is done melt some butter and glaze over the crust. Bread rolls baked for 16 mins
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