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Boxty (Irish Potato Cakes)

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Variant of the traditional Irish fried potato cakes recipe. An old Irish rhyme goes as follows:

Boxty on the griddle,
Boxty in the pan,
If you can't make boxty,
You'll never get your man.

Total 01:00
Yield 20 cakes

Ingredients

  • 2 pounds potatoes
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • 1–2 tablespoons butter, for frying
  • 1½ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • Freshly-ground black pepper

Instructions

  1. 1
    Take half of the potatoes and wash, peel, chunk, and boil them.
  2. 2
    Mash the boiled potatoes with milk and 1 tablespoon butter and set them aside.
  3. 3
    Grate the other pound of (raw) potatoes into a strong cloth.
  4. 4
    Squeeze cloth to remove all possible liquid from the raw potatoes.
  5. 5
    Mix together the grated potatoes, the mashed potatoes, baking soda, buttermilk, flour, and black pepper (to taste).
  6. 6
    Stir thoroughly to combine.
  7. 7
    Warm nonstick griddle or skillet over medium heat and melt butter.
  8. 8
    Pour potato cakes on griddle, ¼ cup at a time.
  9. 9
    Fry until edges are soft and cake is bubbling.
  10. 10
    Cook on other side.
  11. 11
    Serve hot.
Method
Frying

Dietary Information

Vegetarian

Recipe Attribution

Wikibooks Cookbook
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Boxty_(Irish_Potato_Cakes)