Boxty (Irish Potato Cakes)
Variant of the traditional Irish fried potato cakes recipe. An old Irish rhyme goes as follows:Boxty on the griddle, Boxty in the pan, If you can't make boxty, You'll never get your man.
Ingredients
- 2 pounds potatoes
- 1 cup milk
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1–2 tablespoons butter, for frying
- 1½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup buttermilk
- Freshly-ground black pepper
Ingredients for 5 servings (1.6 kg) · the original recipe
Method
- 1
Take half of the potatoes and wash, peel, chunk, and boil them.
Stovetop - 2
Mash the boiled potatoes with milk and 1 tablespoon butter and set them aside.
- 3
Grate the other pound of (raw) potatoes into a strong cloth.
- 4
Squeeze cloth to remove all possible liquid from the raw potatoes.
- 5
Mix together the grated potatoes, the mashed potatoes, baking soda, buttermilk, flour, and black pepper (to taste).
- 6
Stir thoroughly to combine.
- 7
Warm nonstick griddle or skillet over medium heat and melt butter.
Stovetop - 8
Pour potato cakes on griddle, ¼ cup at a time.
Stovetop - 9
Fry until edges are soft and cake is bubbling.
Stovetop - 10
Cook on other side.
- 11
Serve hot.
Recipe from Wikibooks Cookbook, written by Wikibooks contributors. Used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; the ingredient list and method on this page are taken from that page and edited (its notes, tips and variations are not reproduced), and are available under the same licence. The macros, equipment tags and scaling are Ma Kitchen’s own and are not the source’s figures. Ma Kitchen is not affiliated with or endorsed by Wikibooks Cookbook. Copied on 2026-11-12.
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