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Recipe ~ Boxty Cakes

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brigid_oatcakes

Boxty Cakes

½ lb hot cooked potatoes
½ lb grated raw potatoes
2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1½ cups buttermilk
butter for frying
salt and pepper

 

Instructions:

Drain, peel and mash the hot potatoes.

Stir in the raw potatoes, flour and baking soda. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Mix well with enough buttermilk to make a stiff batter.

Shape into 3 inch patties about ¼ inch thick and fry on hot greased griddle until crispy and golden on both sides.

Yield 12 cakes

Our Hawai’ian Kitchen ~ Butter Mochi

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simple_butter_mochi_recipe
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Ingredients ~
  • Mochiko mixture:
  • 2 cups mochiko flour
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • Butter mixture:
  • 2 cups whole milk or 2% milk
  • ¼ cup butter, melted and cooled
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla
  • 2 tablespoons kinako (roasted soy bean flour), optional
Instructions ~
  1. Preheat oven 350 degrees. Grease 8-inch square pan.
  2. In a mixing bowl, add mochiko flour, sugar and baking soda; mix to combine.
  3. In another bowl, mix together milk, butter and vanilla.
  4. Whisk together flour mixture with wet ingredients. Add about a third of flour ingredients at a time to milk mixture; mix until smooth.
  5. Pour into greased baking pan.
  6. Bake for 50 minutes to 1 hour.
  7. Cool completely, then slice with butter knife.
  8. Sprinkle with kinako.
Notes ~
While cooling, loosen sides with a butter knife.

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