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| Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:44 pm Post subject: Potato Farls / Potato Cakes |
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An easy, quick, inexpensive recipe for students and people who can't cook (like myself).
Ingredients:
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1 cup mashed potato
Half cup of white flour
1 tbsp butter
Salt
Instructions:
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Boil up some potatoes and mash. Melt the butter and together with some salt mix it in with the mashed potatoes. Add the flour and knead for a minute or so. Roll the mixture on a floured board into a circle shape. Cut the circle into 4 quarters (farls) and fry up until the sides turn a dappled brown. Taking into the account the boiling time for the potatoes the whole recipe takes 30 minutes. Enjoy (the calories)!
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Mmm, I like fried potatoes. Wonder if this might serve as a potato variation for dinner?
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| Droopy wrote: | | Mmm, I like fried potatoes. Wonder if this might serve as a potato variation for dinner? |
Breakfast, lunch, dinner....as far as I'm concerned it will work for them all. My question is, would you really need to have meat or another vegie with it? 
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Probably not, Toni. It sounds very good on it's own. 
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| Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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| toni wrote: | | My question is, would you really need to have meat or another vegie with it? |
Yes they seem quite versatile. They are part of a traditional breakfast (think sausages, bacon, eggs) in Northern Ireland I think.
The reason I made these is that my Swedish class is having a food party on Friday. Everyone must bring something from their homeland
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that does sound good, I bet b4 you fry them you could sandwich some meat in the middle then fry.
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Another side idea that my hubby uses: instead of the flour, he mixes an egg into the mashed potatoes and fries them up flat.
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We call them potato scones here in Scotland but your recipe is exactly the same as the one I make my 'scones' with Frank. We have them with bacon, egg, sausage, blackpudding, dumpling, mushrooms and beans. 
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| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 2:16 am Post subject: |
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We here in this part of Texas call them potato fritters and add 1 egg, Flour and chopped onions.with the potatos then fry them the same way.
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Pass the ketchup, please!
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Yes,ketsup is good with them
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Food parties yeah
Nice - I would probably add herbs and spices for extra flavour - I am thinking rosemary and olive as seasonign.
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