Name: To Make Potatoe Bread
Ingredients: equal quantities of flour; equal quantities of potatoe meal

To Make Potatoe Bread

Ingredients

equal quantities of flour
equal quantities of potatoe meal

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

Combine equal amounts of flour and potato meal.
Knead the mixture until smooth.
Shape the dough into loaves.

Bake

Bake in a preheated oven at 350°F (175°C) until golden brown.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Flour: Provides the main structure, as its proteins form gluten that holds the loaf together.
Potato meal: Adds moisture and a soft, tender crumb to the bread.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.