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Using Your Food Storage: Potato Pearls

Potato Pearl Bread:

5 C. Milk
1/2 C. Shortening
1/2 C. Sugar
1/2 C. Potato Pearls
2 T Salt
2 T Yeast
9-11 C. Flour

Microwave milk until hot. Place shortening, sugar, salt and potato pearls in a large bowl. Pour hot milk over shortening mixture and stir until potato pears dissolve. Cool. Add yeast. Mix in enough flour to form a soft dough, then knead 6 minutes. Cover and let rise. Form into loaves and place in flour loaf pans. Let them rise. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes.


Potato Rolls

Dissolve:
2 pckg. Yeast (5 tsp.)
1/4 c.warm water
2 c. milk
3/4 c. sugar
1/2 c. potato pearls
2 eggs
2 tsp. salt
8 c. flour (aprx)

Dissolve yeast in warm water. Scald milk, sugar and shortening and set aside. Mix potato pearls with hot water to equal one cup. When milk mixture has cooked to lukewarm, mix with potato water, yeast, eggs and salt. Add about 8 cups of flour. Knead until smooth and elastic. Raise until double. Punch down, roll out 1/2 in. thick. Cut in 3-3 2/3rds inch circles. Fold in half, pinch edges together. Place on greased cookie sheet. Raise until double (aprx. 45 min.) Bake at 375 degrees for 10-15 minutes. Makes 3 1/2 dozen.

Other ideas for Potato Pearls:

* Use as a side dish of mashed potatoes
* Use to thicken soup, stew or gravy by simply adding a handful to your dish and stirring until dissolved
* Use as a crust for shephards pie or other similar casseroles
Source: Traverse Mountain 1st Ward Pantry Cookbook

* Ordering Potato Pearls from the Home Storage Center; Potato Pearls are available only in a bulk of 12- 28 oz bags. Price is 21 lbs. for $43.10

Next Home Storage Center (formerly Cannery) Date is Saturday, Oct. 17th @ 9:00 am
Order forms are also found online at www.providentliving.org Please call in order to Harriet Sutherland (734-7762) or Andrea DeCoria (947-1170), no later than Oct. 10th.