Halloween Champ

An Irish dish, special to Bonfire Night because it has favors buried in it, and a festival food because it has butter—a most extravagant luxury in the peasant community, where the butter went to pay the rent. In the old days, everyone usually had buttermilk as a sauce for the potatoes, and if you didn’t have the buttermilk, well, you put out the empty bowl and dipped in the potatoes just the same. The potatoes themselves were never peeled before cooking, but shaken over the heat so they spl