These potato pancakes are a well known Halloween dish in Ireland: a silver sixpence, wrapped in greaseproof paper, and hidden in the pancake meant good luck of the finder in the coming year
Ingredients:
8 oz. (225g) plain flour
8oz. (225g) cooked potatoes, mashed
8 oz. (225g) raw potatoes, peeled
1 tsp salt
oil for frying
skimmed milk
Cooking Instructions:
Grate the raw potatoes into a linen cloth
Wring them out over a basin thus catching a little of the liquid
Leave this liquid to settle until the water on top is clear
Place the grated raw potatoes from the cloth into another bowl with the mashed potatoes and mix
Pour off the water from the top of the potato liquid and pour the remaining starchy sediment
on to the potato mixture in the other bowl
Add the salt and flour then mix the mixture well
Make a well in the middle of the mixture then add enough skimmed milk to give a batter of dropping consistency
Beat the mixture well then allow to stand for a couple of minutes before cooking
Heat a thick based frying pan or griddle and grease with a little oil
Drop spoonfuls of the potato batter into the pan and spread evenly
Allow the mixture to cook on the underneath then turn and cook on the other side
Serve warm with a sprinkling of sugar
For your Halloween party hide a coin, wrapped in greaseproof paper, in one of the pancakes