As per plan, after testing various recipes and approaches I made the potato bread - some 200 potato farls. As a reminder I took advantage of the cheap potatoes that all the supermarkets sell over the Christmas period to grab the primary ingredient at an advantageous price (15p for 1.5Kg). The potatoes were floury rather than waxy - that was an important consideration. It was a massive undertaking - I peeled and boiled just over 3Kgs of potatoes making a fine mash with a potat

The opportunity of cheap potatoes offered by every supermarket to go along with Christmas dinner provided the perfect excuse to play around with a few potato bread recipes. I bought three large bags of potatoes to perfect our recipe, with the intention of mass production and freezing for consumption through to next Christmas. Between Christmas and New Year, we tried a few different recipes. We had some miserable failures and one absolute winner — though the amount of butter r