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Description/Notes:
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:
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