Boxty Potato Pancakes Recipe
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Ingredients: * 1/2 lb raw potato
* 1/2 lb mashed potato
* 1/2 lb plain flour
* 1 egg
* Milk, to mix
* Salt and pepper
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Directions:Grate raw potatoes and mix with the cooked mashed potatoes. Add salt, pepper and flour. Beat egg and add to mixture with just enough milk to make a batter that will drop from a spoon.
Drop by tablespoonfuls onto a hot griddle or frying pan. Cook over a moderate heat for 3-4 minutes on each side. Serve with a tart apple sauce: or as part of an Ulster Fry, with fried bacon, fried sausage, fried eggs, fried black pudding, fried bread, fried soda bread. |
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Time:45 minutes |
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Notes: When we were growing up in DesMoines nothing went to waste, including leftover mashed potatoes! This was long before every home had a microwave oven. I remember the first Microwave oven I ever saw. It was at Auntie Florence's house...she had the first dishwasher we ever saw too! LOL Anyway, Mom used to make potato pancakes with the leftover mashed potatoes. Then she would thin down reheat the leftover gravy to go on top. This may sound disgusting but it was really good! I am sure that Mom took that recipe from her own family which was Irish and Bohemian. Here is the Irish version and it is really excellent with the addition of grated fresh potatoes.
Boxty is yet another of the numerous Irish foodstuffs that has poetry written about it. It would have been a mainstay of the home cook's repertoire, two hundred years ago, as a convenient and enjoyable way to use the ubiquitous potato. Boxty has some similarities to other European potato cake recipes, especially latkes.
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