Potato Scones - yum

weegie_2

If you're scottish you'll love this recipe for potato scones. Just made a batch to use up some tatties. Yum Yum.

500g mashed potato
130g flour
6 tablespoons of melted butter
1 and a half teaspoons of salt.

Mix all together so you get a very soft dough. Shouldn't be too sticky, but be warned it is very soft. Roll out (you'll need flour for dusting so it doesn't stick) to about 7 mm think and then cut into squares or circles. Again, take care when lifting.

Heat a large frying pan and grease slightly with butter (you hardly need any butter - pan shouldn't be too hot either or it will burn them). Lightly fry scones on each side for about 2-3 mins. They should look golden brown.

And thats them. Allow to cool and then you can fry them whenever you want. Serve with your bacon, eggs and crusty rolls (glasgow folk know about morrisons crusty rolls!). They definitely taste far better when they have been allowed to cool and then reheated in a pan with a wee dod of oil.

Enjoy.

newlywed

I'm a softie southerner but I love irish and scottish potato cakes! Thanks for the recipe.

weegie_2

no probs - should have mentioned that down south will know them as potato cakes (and not scones)

Cazzdevil

My Scottish mother has been making these since my brother and I were knee high to a grasshopper. Tattie scones we call them though

katthehat

Call um what you like..............i love um!!!

Thanks for the recipe, always buy mine in, gonna give it a go!!