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There's no rational explanation for why I've been trying to make purple bread, but that's what I've been doing lately.  In this batch I mashed a purple sweet potato and added it to the flour.  The color is definitely purple, leaning slightly toward pink.

The flavor of the sweet potato is subtle but it gives the bread a hint of sweetness and that soft pillowy texture you associate with potato breads.  The crumb is a little dense but that's to be expected when you add mashed potatoes to a bread.

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Hibiscus flowers (flor de jamaica) make an extremely vibrant pink/purple tea with some really nice floral and tart flavors.  I'm starting to experiment a little bit more with using other hydration sources instead of water for my bread baking.  I recently baked a loaf of bread that only used a milk stout instead of water and it turned out really good.