Idaho · Breakfast
Idaho Spudnuts
- Advanced
- 3 h
- roughly 2 of 4 for cost
- Vegetarian
Leads with richness that coats and comforts, a floral thread lifting the aroma.
Ingredients
- 250g mashed potato, cooled
- 500g flour
- 7g instant yeast
- 100g sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 240ml warm milk
- 2 eggs
- 55g butter, melted
- Neutral oil for frying
- For the glaze: 300g icing sugar, 60ml milk, 1 tsp vanilla
Equipment
Sheet pan · Deep-fry pot
The skills inside
Proofing: the rise before the oven
Allergen screen
Found: gluten · dairy · egg
Screened for: gluten, dairy, egg, nuts, peanuts, fish, shellfish, molluscs, soy, sesame, celery, mustard, lupin, alcohol. Not screened: sulphites.
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Method
- Beat the cooled mashed potato with the milk, eggs, sugar, and melted butter.
- Add the flour, yeast, and salt and knead to a soft, tacky dough. Rise 90 min until doubled. 90 min
- Roll to 1cm and cut rings. Rise 30 min on floured trays until puffy. 30 min
- Fry at 175C for 60-90 seconds a side until deep gold.
- Dip in the glaze while still warm and set on a rack.
How to tell it is going right
This dish has no standard of its own yet. It is judged on the technique it exercises: checked at the pan, while there is still something to be done about it.
Proofing: the rise before the oven 78 recipes
- Judged on volume against the container rather than on the clock: visibly grown, and grown by roughly the amount the recipe describes.
- The poke test agrees: a floured fingertip pressed a centimetre in leaves a dent that springs back slowly and only part of the way. Straight back means it is not ready; no spring at all means it has gone.
- The surface is domed, smooth, and slightly sheened: not cratered, wrinkled, or collapsed, and not skinned over and dry from proofing uncovered.
- Handled, it feels alive and airy: light for its size, with bubbles visible under the skin.
- It springs in the oven: the piece lifts in the first minutes and the scores open. A shape that does not move at all was proofed past its point before it went in.
Where it goes wrong It was proofed to the clock in a kitchen colder or warmer than the recipe assumed: overproofed, it collapses as the blade touches it and bakes flat and dense with a sour edge; underproofed, it tears at the side and bakes tight.
At the Table
- The Pour
- Mimosa (weekends only)
- Also Right
- Cava, straight
- From the Taps
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- Zero-Proof
- Fresh orange juice & café au lait
Morning food wants brightness and bubbles, or honest coffee: nothing that argues before noon.
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