Potato Pancakes with Smoked Eel and Bacon

Georges Blanc has a pretty damned ritzy restaurant in Bourg-en-Bresse, complete with heli-pad and staff with superior attitudes, really the kind’of place I loathe. I went there once and had all my negative preconceptions reinforced. I loved just one thing on the menu - these potato pancakes, made apparently from a recipe of the great man’s mother. Any large potatoes will work. Indeed, if you have some mashed potatoes left over these will form the basis of an excellent pancake batt