Breakfast – Scottish Potato Cakes
These are a delicious alternative to hash browns or fried bread, and are brilliant with a Sunday morning fry-up of bacon and eggs. You can make these the night before and re-heat them when you want to. They are also fantastic to freeze. Make them, fry them, then cut them into quarters or halves and store them flat in a tightly wrapped freezer bag. They separate well when frozen if you just want one or two pieces to yourself.
Makes about 8 potato cakes
INGREDIENTS
125g plain flour; ½ tsp baking powder; ½ tsp salt; ½ tsp pepper; 30g butter; 250g potatoes, peeled, boiled and drained; approximately ½ cup milk; extra butter for frying
METHOD
Sift the flour, baking powder, salt and pepper into a large bowl then rub in the butter as if you were making scones, until the mixture resembles coarse sand.
Push the cooked potatoes through a potato ricer, or a mouli, or mash until very fine and smooth. Make sure there are no lumps. DO NOT add milk or butter.
Add the potatoes to the flour mixture with enough milk to make a stiff dough. Use your hands to combine the ingredients well.
Turn out onto a well floured work surface and knead briefly then roll with your hands to form the dough into a fat sausage shape. Cut the roll into 8 equal pieces. Roll out each piece into flat rounds, about 3 mm thick and about 10 cm in diameter.
Heat a frying pan over a medium heat and melt a small knob of butter. Fry each potato cake for about 3 minutes on each side until the cakes are golden brown. Either serve immediately with bacon and eggs or cool then freeze for later.
COST
75cents for four servings
These are almost identical to Irish Griddle Cakes, also known as Fadge, only difference is we dry fry in a pan that is floured, then you store them cooked once (freeze or fridge) and then cook them a second time with a few dots of butter. They are the best dipped into a dippy egg!
Completely agree with you about dipping them into googy eggs.
excellent I’m so making this.
Hi Sandra, To those of us who grew up with these they are callled potato scones. Just for a comparison they are $5 for 4 frozen potato scones at my local butcher. Thanks for your site, it’s really inspiring me.