Boxty

Submitted by Ian Carol Rice

"Boxty is the traditional Irish fare for Shrove Tuesday. Composed of grated raw potatoes, mashed cooked potatoes, with flour added as a binding agent, Boxty is either fried in a pan or browned on a griddle. It is mentioned in a traditional children's Irish jingle "Three pans of boxty, baking all the day. What use is boxty without a cup of tay?""

 

• Ingredients: 7
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 4 cups potatoes, peeled, grated (about 1 kg)
• 1 1⁄3 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 6 tablespoons milk
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1⁄4 cup brown sugar
• 4 tablespoons butter, melted

directions

1. Squeeze grated potatoes as dry as possible in a tea towel.
2. In a bowl, combine the potatoes, flour, and salt. Stir in the milk gradually, using enough to make the mixture hold to together.
3. Let the mixture stand 1 hour.
4. Heat a 23cm - 25cm heavy frying pan until very hot. Drop in the butter and let it melt. Pat the potato mixture into the pan with a spatula, distributing it evenly.
5. Cook over medium heat until the underside is set and golden brown.
6. Slide the pancake onto a plate and invert it back into the pan.
7. Let the other side brown.
8. Serve the pancake straight from the pan with brown sugar and melted butter.

Reviews

[angelina ballerina]

My boyfriend is irish and i lived there for a year. This is very similiar to potato bread which we ate there. Very versatile this, I will make different meals with it now.

 

[Queen of Everything]

A local restauraunt serves this with cream cheese and scallions in between two small pieces of this.