GRIT Country Skills Series

Basic White Potato Bread

My grandmother taught me that when making mashed potatoes, you should cook one potato per person and one more “for the pot”—but I usually add more. Sometimes when I see potatoes starting to sprout in the bin, I’ll go ahead and cook those up and mash them. Waste not, want not; potatoes make good bread.

Any leftovers go into baggies, approximately 1 cup into each, and I tuck these

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