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      Title: English Griddle Potato Cakes
 Categories: Quickbreads
      Yield: 1 Servings
 
      1    1/4 Pound Potatoes
      1 oz Melted butter
    1/2 ts Salt
      4 oz Flour
      1 ts Baking powder

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      1    Egg

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      2 tb Brown sugar
      1 tb Granulated sugar

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           Suet, lard or bacon fat
     15    Minutes cooking time.
 
  Scrub, boil and peel the potatoes in the usual way (left over
  potatoes may be used, but newly cooked ones taste better). Weigh out
  a pound of them and mash thoroughly, or put through the coarse blade
  of a vegetable mill. Mix in the other ingredients quickly, using
  enough flour to make a coherent and not too sticky dough. Version 1
  Roll out thinly and cut into saucer-sized rounds. Bake on a griddle
  greased with lard, beef suet or bacon fat and eat immediately,
  rolling the cakes like pancakes round little sticks of salty butter.
  Version 2 Roll out the dough to a 1/2" thickness and cut with a scone
  cutter. Cook on a griddle and eat with bacon, eggs and so on. They
  will need Version 3 The Welsh manner Incorporate the sugars with the
  mixture. Roll out 1/2" thick and cut into rounds with the scone
  cutter. 15-20 minutes cooking time on the griddle, greased with suet
  or lard. Recipes Jane Grigson, "English Food" MMed IMH c/o Georges'
  Home BBS 2:323/4.4
 
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