Potato Cake Recipe - Cornish Recipes

Cornish Recipes > Sweet Potato Cake

How to make sweet potato cake:

A really good way of using up potatoes.

Ingredients

4 cups plain flour
4 medium sized cold boiled potatoes
1 cup grated suet
2 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon candied peel
pinch salt
4 tablespoons currants
milk or buttermilk
(see measure conversions for more information)

Method

- Mix all the ingredients together with enough milk or buttermilk to form a stiff dough.
- Roll into an oblong and place on a greased baking tray.
- Mark lightly into squares and bake in a hot oven until golden brown.

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As a true Cornish Lass sadly living away from Cornwall I am so pleased to find this recipe. My mother used to make this when I was a child and I have been searching for a copy.....Can't wait to try it.

#0 - Helen Bacon - 12/16/2007 - 13:16


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