Potatoe [potato] Bread

Item

Title
Potatoe [potato] Bread
Date
en 1694/1795
Description
A recipe for bread made with boiled, sieved potatoes and wheat flour.
Transcript
Chuse the most mealy sort of Potatoes boil and skin them. take 12. lbs break and strain them well through a very coarse Sieve of Hair, or a very fine one of Wire in such a manner as to reduce the Roots, as nearly as possible to a state of flour, mix it well with 20 lbs, of Wheaten flour of this mixture make and set the dough exactly in the same [manner] as if the whole was Wheaten flo[text loss] this quantity will make nine loaves [text loss] Bread about 5 lbs each in the dough and when baked about two hours, will produ[ce] 42 lbs of exelent Bread.
The raw potatoe skined grated and mixed with flour as above makes good Bread
[inserted lower left margin: March 19 1795]
Contributor
Caylor, Karmen
Le, Vincent
en Grimm, Stephanie
en Salahuddin, Shafiya
Source
Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
Publisher
George Mason University Libraries
Rights
Public domain. There are no known restrictions.