http://www.democraticunderground.com/115712879Oh my.
Neoma (7,742 posts)
Potato patties: everyone I know doesn't know what the hell these are.
They go, "you mean potato pancakes?" NO.
Nuke a potato or two (more than two if they're red potatoes) peel them (don't really have to do that), mash them in a bowl, add 1 large egg (two if small), stir, add 2/3 cup of flour (more or less), stir, add milk and stir until batter looks like pancake batter more or less. The patties are supposed to be brown on both sides. Cook in olive oil.
Important part: eat with ketchup. It's not complete without ketchup. Can't stress enough on the ketchup.
Anyways, that's one of my favorite, "I shouldn't eat too much of this" thing.
No fudging way.
Eggs in potatoes?
Flour in potatoes?
Ketchup on potatoes?
The primitive probably gets gastric discombobulations a lot.
woodsprite (5,144 posts)
1. Sounds like how my Mom used to make her Potato Cakes.
She probably used closer to 1/3 cup of flour and only a couple of tablespoons of milk, if needed. She would form them into 'patties' and fry them. Sometimes she would grate a bit of onion into them Y*M!!!
We used to eat them with ketchup or a pat of butter on top.
livetohike (13,357 posts)
2. My Mom would just use leftover, homemade mashed potatoes then form patties and fry them in butter. It had to be butter
Uh huh.
That's the
only way to make them.
Phentex (6,770 posts)
3. Yes, after Thanksgiving...and only a couple of times but that's how I remember them. They were good! Now, we don't usually HAVE leftovers.
livetohike (13,357 posts)
4. Same here. Growing up, I don't remember that we ever had leftovers from a regular day meal so we rarely had these potato patties, but they were good enough to make a memory
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Anyway.
You know, my fellow alum Skins
has to do something about the cooking and baking forum.
The cooking and baking forum used to be the liveliest, the biggest, the most active, of the "small forums" on Skins's island, but the past couple of years it's been accumulating more cobwebs than comments.
One recalls how active it was when Mrs. Alfred Packer, the hippywife primitive, was the soul of it, but she's gone now, hippyhubby Wild Bill having ordered her to delete her account, jealous that she was paying more attention to the primitives, than to him.
One doesn't want Mrs. Alfred Packer back--oh God no--who was singularly nasty, vile, full of hate (just as the late Tangerine LaBamba had warned us nearly three years ago), not a shred of a bone of human decency in her body.
Lu, who's a nice person, has doggedly and valiantly tried to keep the forum going, but apparently being "nice" repels, rather than attracts, the other primitives.
I don't have any suggestions for Skins, but it's obvious
something needs to be done.
