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[bbd] – Guinness and Potato Bread

22 February 2009 11 Comments

It’s time for Bread Baking Day again.

This month Lien from Notitie van Lien chose the theme Bread and Potatoes and is acting as host kitchen. Thank you Lien.

When I read them theme announced at Lien’s blog I was very excited ’cause I immediately knew which bread I wanted to bake.

There was one potato bread lounging in my links for some time now and I wanted it to try ’cause it has my favourite ingredients: Guinness and potatos…

(original recipe here)

Ingredients:
4.75 cups spelt flour
4 mashed potatoes
0.5 cup luke warm Guinness
7 grams (1 packet) yeast
2 tsps salt
2 tbsps olive oil

1 – Dissolve (completely) yeast in the Guinness
2 – Mix with potatoes, oil, and salt
3 – Gradually add all of the flour.
4 – Kneed until smooth, then cover for half an hour to rise.
5 – Roll out, either into two large rounds, or into 16 rolls and place on a floured towel, cover and let rise for 20 more minutes.
6 – Bake at 200°C until done.

My thoughts:

The bread is wonderful. Rich, moist and very tasty. I have baked it again twice and still like it. I could not imagine a potato brad would be so yummy, I should have tried this earlier!
Thanks Lien for making me step out of my comfort zone once again. :)

bbd breadbakingday

11 Comments »

Lien said:

I love that picture of the guinness and potatoes and your PC… like you were planning it all to happen. And it did, wonderful bread. Great combo beer and potatoes (hey, we eat crisps with our beer right!) Great bread Astrid, and thanks for joining BBD 17!!

astrid Reply at February 24th, 2009 2:19 PM:

Thank you Lien! Can’t wait for the round up! :)

# 23 February 2009 at 6:03 PM

MyKitchenInHalfCups said:

:0) A laptop, a Guinness and potatoes = bread
Sounds perfectly modern and old all at once.
I just working on my potato bread post. Have a little beer in mine too ;)

# 24 February 2009 at 7:50 PM

zorra said:

Klingt superlecker und sieht auch so aus!

# 3 March 2009 at 1:34 PM

Andreas said:

Ah, backen mit Guinness ist was feines. Letztes Jahr habe ich Guinness Muffins ausprobiert. Waren sehr lecker.

# 3 March 2009 at 10:16 PM

sherry said:

hi! while reading the round up this is the bread i want to make. sounds wonderful. was the bread baked at 200*? how long? cant wait to try it. yummmmmm. cheers!

# 5 March 2009 at 1:59 PM

sherry said:

of course now that i have had my coffee … do the conversion to *F = 392*F. thanks for the recipe! cheers!

# 5 March 2009 at 2:11 PM

Glenda said:

Loved your recipe and how you did your blog and pictures!

# 5 March 2009 at 4:12 PM

Glenda said:

Just wanted to say your bread looks great! And that I love how you did your blog.

# 5 March 2009 at 5:22 PM

Glenda said:

Sorry about twice, I didn’t think it took it last time.