Catholic Recipe: Boxty Bread

Also Called: Potato Bread

Boxty is a rural Irish concoction, said to have originated during the Irish famine. It's a potato pancake made with flour and egg. Boxty is the traditional Irish fare for Shrove Tuesday or Halloween and the Feast of All Saints. 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.

DIRECTIONS

Wash and peel the raw potatoes and grate them onto a piece of cheesecloth. Then squeeze them out, catching the liquid in a dish which must be allowed to stand so that the potato starch may settle. Mash the cooked potatoes over the raw, and season with salt. Pour off the potato liquid carefully; then scrape up the potato starch at the bottom of the dish and add to the potato mixture. Work in enough flour to make a good dough and knead for a few minutes; then roll out, cut into cakes, and bake on a hot griddle.