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If you have never watched the Townsends on YouTube, I encourage you to do so! Here’s a video about using other foods to substitute for part of the wheat flour at a time when wheat flour was in short supply due to crop failures or other reasons. In this video, John concentrates on the use of potato. As he points out, one advantage of using potato is that it isn’t easy to tell that the loaf is not all wheat. People in the 18th century wanted white bread.

Of course these days we make bread with all kinds of grain. Two common additions are oats and corn. If you want to try potato bread, either follow John’s directions, or try this one.

I remember my mother making potato rolls for a special dinner – like Thanksgiving!

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