Friday, November 11, 2011

11/11/11

Bread Recipe

Desolina Merlino's, Panne di Corpisanti (Bread of the Holy Spirit), as recorded by Frank and Debra Merlino while watching on 12/16/94 (Mom was born in the tiny town of Corpisanti, in the Abruzzo region of Italy.  My wife and I visited it in 2004.)

6 potatoes

5 lbs unbleached flour (separate out two big handfuls to use later when kneading as needed)

2 Fleichmann's Active Dry Yeast packets

teaspoon of sugar

teaspoon of salt

in a cup pour 2 Fleichmann's Active Dry Yeast packets and a teaspoon of sugar, stir, then add warm water up half way, stir, and put aside to rise to top of cup

peel and boil and mash potatoes (save the water to add to dough when kneading as needed)

mix potatoes, flour, cup of yeast/sugar and half cup of potato water(from being poured into yeast cup to rinse any yeast remnants), add teaspoon of salt - knead, adding flour put aside and potato water as needed

let rest in a covered pan for one hour

remove and work over adding flour to sides of pan and hands to de-stick as needed then return to pan and cover for an hour

repeat above once more

then cut pieces off and form shapes and place in pans greased with olive oil and sprinkled with flour, cut a cross on top

let rest in oiled/floured pans for about 15 minutes

bake at 425 for about a half hour

Life is a work of art designed by the one who lives it.

Enjoy