For Marti Rosalin: This recipe is called Potato Cakes and comes from
_The Little Irish Baking Book_ by Ruth Isabel Ross (St. Martin's Press,
copyright 1995). Hope it's close to what your friend remembers.
- Ron
Potato Cakes
175 g / 6 oz / 1 cup mashed potato
125 g / 4 oz / 1 cup self-raising white flour
50 g / 2 oz / 1/2 stick butter
extra butter for cooking
Steam or boil the potatoes. Mash them without using milk. Rub the butter
into the flour. Mix this well with the mashed potato and knead it into a
flexible dough. Either roll the dough on a pastry board and cut it into
rounds, or less wastefully, form it into several flat cakes with your
hands. Melt a little butter in a hot frying pan or a griddle and put in the
potato cakes. Cook them on both sides until they are dry and golden brown.
Serve at once with softened butter.