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Rustic Potato Loaves

Rustic Potato Loaves — a community recipe on Potlikkr.

Ingredients

• 1.5 lb Russet Potatoes
• 4.0 tsp Salt
• 0.5 cup Tepid Reserved Potato Water
• 1.0 tbsp Active Dry Yeast

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Method (preview)

1. 1

   A yeast-raised bread with a dough that's half flour, half mashed potatoes, and entirely satisfying. The crust is deep and dark, the moist crumb is tender and open here, tightly grained there, and the flavor is haunting and not easily placed, almost a little nutty. It is an odd and interesting dough to work with, a reverse dough-it comes together quickly and then softens and falls apart, defying what's expected of bread dough. The breads, two free-form rusticlooking loaves, each with a jagged, flour-encrusted crease running down its center, are easy to make and quick to rise-they proof for just twenty minutes before shaping and twenty minutes after, making them good candidates for baking on a whim.

2. 2

   Cooking the Potatoes: