or, You don’t have to eat it all at once.
Posted by olvlzl.
Boxty
4 medium potatoes
1 c. flour
1t. salt
1c. milk (soy milk works) or yogurt
2 eggs beaten
Grate two of the potatoes and squeeze the water from them by hand.
Boil the other two potatoes and mash them.
Mix all of the ingredients together until combined and bake in a greased casserole dish at 350 for about forty minutes or until done.
You can add onions.
Colcannon
Combine diced, boiled potatoes and lightly blanched, diced cabbage in whatever proportions you like. I like more cabbage and I always end up throwing in some onions. Fry in a tablespoon or so of oil until tender.
Soda Bread
4 c. flour
3 T sugar
1 t salt
1 t soda
1 t baking powder
4 T cold butter cut into pieces
1 egg
2 C buttermilk
Optional, 3 T. Caraway seeds
Mix dry ingredients together. Add butter and cut in. Add raisins and caraway.
Add the egg and butter milk and quickly and lightly knead till just incorporated
Bake at 425 degrees F. 40-45 minutes.
Tea Loaf
1 1/2 cups hot tea
2 c raisins
2 c currents
1 egg
1 t mixed spice
2 t baking powder
1 c soft brown sugar
3 1/2 c flour.
Soak fruit in hot tea till cold. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Mix egg, spice, baking powder, sugar , flour and the dry fruit. Pour into cake pan. Bake 1 1/2 hours or until a skewer comes out clean. Or steam. Turn out after five minutes of cooling.