Lucy Madden

Potato and Apple Cake

Cáca Prátaí agus Úll

Preparation info
  • Serve

    Six

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Potato Year: 300 Classic Recipes
The Potato Year

By Lucy Madden

Published 2015

  • About

This traditional Irish recipe is more of a pie than a cake. The crust is more biscuit-like than normal pastry and keeps a separate identity from the filling. This will serve six.

Ingredients

  • 1 lb (450 g) potatoes, peeled and boiled
  • 2 oz (50

Method

Make a purée with the potatoes, and while still warm stir in the butter. Add the demerara sugar, flour and ginger to make a dough. Divide the mixture into two portions and roll out one half to fit the bottom of a 9-inch flan dish.

Peel and slice the apples and put them on the pastry with the ca