Today I made bread using a mixer with dough hooks, for the first time. Part of my drive down the nostalgia highway. I used the recipe in the old Mixmaster cookbook. The recipe was for potato bread - Mashed potatoes, water, egg, flour, a little sugar, a little salt. The mashed potatoes were made with potato flakes, water, milk, butter.
It was very nice using the mixer to knead the dough. I mistakenly left out the egg and sugar until after kneading, so added them and kneaded a bit longer, adding a little more flour. Not as easy as if I included them before kneading but the loaf still came out great.
The loaf was delicious! It had a great rich flavor, nice crust, slightly chewy texture. Nice old fashioned home made bread.
I never wanted to use dough hooks - sort of takes the baker a bit away from the dough. But, I thought the process was kind of empowering. Kneading by hand is too much work now. Cleanup was easier too.
I could easily see going another step further, and making the mashed potatoes from home grown spuds from the June harvest.
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