How To Make Potato Bread From Leftover Mashed Potatoes

Pooka's Potato Bread  

This recipe requires the use of a stand mixer if you prefer a bread machine, my experience has been to add liquids first, then solids except for the yeast, then the yeast on top. You don't have to take my word for it though look it up in your bread machine's manual. If you prefer to do it by hand, here is the recipe and the video I based my recipe on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWAIcjHgzKE&list=FLSxqt9Xv7kc7hKZJJGNQSNQ Just omit the herbs and if you like my recipe, just use it following along to the video and the technique geniusinexile is using.

1 c cup mashed potatoes or 1 medium potato cut up boiled with the water saved

2 T yeast

2 T butter, melted

2 T agave nectar

2 t sea salt

1 c butter milk

5 ½ -6 c all purpose flour

¾ c potato water

1 T vital wheat gluten

1 t vanilla

1. Cook some mashed potatoes for a meal and plan for about 1 cup extra . I never peel my potatoes unless I have someone I'm feeding that hates the potato skins. I just scrub them well, chop them up into 1 inch or so pieces and boil them in sea salted water ( about 1 t). By the time the bread is baked you will hardly see the potato skins they'll just be barely noticeable flecks in the dough.
2. Add agave nectar, yeast and potato water and let it proof in the mixing bowl for 10 minutes. You can use sugar , honey or whatever you have but I prefer agave nectar because it's lower in the glycemic index. The potato water does make a difference, it makes a softer bread.
3. Add the butter.
4. Then the buttermilk combo.
5. Then the potatoes.
   Then the sea salt.
6. Add the vital wheat gluten and vanilla.
7. Mix for one minute.
8. Add in the flour one cup at a time.
9. Once the dough is well mixed (at least 2 minutes) run your mixer for 6 minutes until it become a firm, smooth, elastic dough and the flour is cleaned up from the sides of the bowl.
10. Oil the dough with cooking spray and let it rise for and hour.
11. Gently punch down the dough  (when you're too rough it compromises the quality of the dough).
12. Divide in two portions..
13. Oil with cooking spray again and let it rise until doubled in two loaf pans.
14. Bake at 350 for 45 minutes to and hour