Potato Rock Cakes

Name: Potato Rock Cakes
Ingredients: 2 oz (50 g) mashed potatoes; 2 oz (50 g) margarine; 2 oz (50 g) flour; 2 oz (50 g) sultanas; 2 oz (50 g) sugar; 1 teaspoon baking powder; A little candied peel; 1 egg, beaten

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Potato Year

By Lucy Madden

Published 2015

About

These are surprisingly good. The presence of potato in baking seems to have a lightening effect, contrary to what one might suppose.

Ingredients

2 oz (50 g) mashed potatoes
2 oz (50

Starter
Side dish
Vegetarian
Christmas
February

Method

Rub the fat into the flour, mix with the other ingredients and finally the beaten egg. Drop dessertspoonfuls onto a greased baking tin. Bake in a hot oven (gas mark 7/425°F/220°C) for 15–20 minute.