Bacon Floddies

I remember these with great fondness, as my maternal grandparents came from the northeast of England, where these little potato cakes are thought to have originated from. Also known as “canal floddies”, due to them being popular with the navvies who worked building the canals in the region. They would cook them on shovels over an open fire. Made with grated raw potato, similar to Swiss and German röstis, they were particularly popular right up to the end of the 19th century as a cheap and c