First daring Baker's challenge

About a week ago I completed my first daring baker's challenge, but I had to wait until today to post about it on my blog. As I have mentioned before, the daring bakers is an international group that takes part in monthly baking challenges. A recipe is chosen at the beginning of the month and everyone in the group must bake following the month's chosen recipe. The recipe must remain a complete secret, until the 27th of the month when all are allowed to reveal the month's challenge and post their results. So, it gives me pleasure to unveil the novemeber daring bakers challenge.....................................Tender Potato Bread!!!! A big thank you to the wonderful Tanna for hosting this months challenge; a recipe from Home Baking: The Artful Mix of Flour & Tradition Around the World by Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid. I adored the recipe even though I had been a bit sceptical because I had never seen potato bread in Australia. It was, to my surprise and great delight, truly delicious.

On the daring bakers private blog I heard comments of the dough being incredibly sticky. I didn't find it too sticky; it stuck a bit, but I have worked with other much stickier doughs.

I would say that I used roughly 7 and a half cups of unbleached all purpose flour, but it is hard to say exactly cause i just poured out a little more every time it was required. Hence,I didn't measure it accurately. The dough rose unbelievably high and literally was overflowing from the bowl.

I made one large plain loaf, which I sprinkled with flour, and a dozen vintage cheddar and dijon mustard buns(see below. )The buns were delicious and went very quickly. The loaf was frozen and wil be eaten tonight. I kept it for today as my sister has just arrived from out of town and it has been a while since we have seen her, so i thought it would be nice to have some good bread.

The one thing that I forgot to do was to slash the loaf three times beofre I put it into the oven. I suppose that is why mine mushroomed over the top of the tin, but I kinda liked the effect of that anyway. I am so thrilled to be a member of the daring bakers and I want to thank Lis and Ivonne for allowing me to join and also Tanna for the great challenge. Can't wait to see everyone else's challenge and I am eager to start with the challenge for November.

To see the other Daring baker's challenges click here and to see the recipe for potato bread visit Tanna's blog My Kitchen in Half Cups