Potato Pancakes with Bacon

Ingredients

• 1 lb. raw potatoes
• 4 oz. bacon
• 1 egg
• juice of half a lemon
• 4 oz. self-raising flour
• salt
• pepper
• nutmeg

Method

1. 1

   Place the lemon juice in a basin, and grate the potatoes into it.

2. 2

   Add the egg, salt, pepper, and a little nutmeg, and mix.

3. 3

   Add the flour.

4. 4

   Fry the bacon, then use the bacon fat to fry the pancakes.

5. 5

   This quantity will make about 12 small pancakes.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The victory cookery book (1918) by Peel, C. S. Mrs, page 26. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

8 oz. self-raising flour, 8 oz. | dry mashed potatoes, a little salt and pepper. } 3 96 THE VICTORY COOKERY BOOK (For Pie Filling).—4 oz. or more of gristle © taken from bones which have been used for — stock, 1 or 2 oz. onion, 4 oz. dripping, 1 lb. | potatoes, a little salt and pepper, 4 oz. flour. — Method.—Line the sides of a pie dish or baking-tin with a suet paste made of the - mashed potatoes, suet, flour, salt and pepper. © Do not use any water to mix. Fry the onion in the dripping; when this begins to — cook, add the flour, and fry to a fawn colour, then add the potatoes, cut into dice, cooked or raw, and cover with water or stock; season to taste, also add the gristle minced or cut small. Cook until the potatoes are done. Fill the pie dish with the mixture, © arrange a layer of cooked sliced potatoes on — the top, and bake for 80 minutes. The same dish can be made by filling all the ingredients © in without first cooking them, covering the — pie with an old plate or dish. _When nearly — done remove the plate, to allow the surface © to colour. In that case the time for cooking © will be 1 hour. Savoury herbs can be added, © and just a sprinkling of vinegar or Wor-— cester sauce will add piquancy to the boiled — gristle. Meat and Potato Flan Materials.—Potato pie crust (see p. 181), MEAT DISHES 97 mixture as described for cobbler’s pie (see p. 95), slices of cooked potato, a little fat to baste, a sprinkling of chopped parsley. Method.—Line a tin plate with potato- pie crust. Prepare the mixture as described for cobbler’s pie; fill the plate with this, and cover with slices of cooked potato. Baste with fat and bake to a nice colour. _ Serve sprinkled with chopped parsley. Potato Pancakes with Bacon Materials—1 lb. raw potatoes, 4 oz. bacon, 1 egg, juice of half a lemon, 4 |b. self-raising flour, salt, pepper and nutmeg

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