Potato Cakes

Name: Potato Cakes
Ingredients: mashed potato; self-raising flour, not more than half as much as potato; 1 beaten egg; salt and freshly ground pepper; self-raising flour, not more than half as much as potato; bacon fat or beef dripping; salt and freshly ground pepper; bacon fat or beef dripping

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Poor Cook

By Susan Campbell and Caroline Conran

Published 1971

About

Ingredients

mashed potato
1 beaten egg
self-raising flour, not more than half as much as potato
salt and freshly ground pepper

Breakfast

Method

Mix the potatoes, egg, flour and seasoning to make a firm dough. Roll out to about half an inch thick and cut into rounds. Fry well, in hot fat quarter of an inch deep in the frying pan. Delicious for breakfast, with egg and bacon, or for children’s high tea. Surprisingly, creamy mashed potato is less successful than dry mashed potato.