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Irish Potato Bread Recipe

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Try this recipe for Irish Potato Bread. You make the dough into pie slices and fry in a hot pan or grill.

Ingredients:

1 cup of flour
Six large potatoes
One egg
One bunch of scallions
2 tablespoons of Irish butter
1 cup of Milk
Salt to taste

Directions:

Peel, boil and mash the potatoes. Finely chop the scallions and add to a large bowl. Add in the potatoes, half the flour and butter. Mix with a wooden spoon. Blend Egg and milk together. Add this as required to bind the potatoes together like a dough. Add a pinch of salt to taste.

On a floured board, roll out the mixture to about one inch thick. Use a 10" plate upside down on the potato dough and cut out a circle of dough using a knife. Remove excess potato dough from around perimeter of this circle. Divide the circle into 8 "Pie-Slices".

Place each slice on a hot pan or grill for about 3 - 4 minutes each side until golden brown. Serve hot with butter on top.

Source: © FoodIreland.com 

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