Mashed Potato Pancakes

By á-10847

"Your search for hard-to-find good potato pancakes is now over. These are good old homemade ones that are slightly sweet, and very very moist." - Ellen Szaller

Ingredients

• 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 3 potatoes, peeled, boiled and mashed
• 1 onion, chopped
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup milk
• 1/4 cup light corn syrup
• 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 2 tablespoons shortening

Details

Servings 12
Cooking time 40mins

Preparation

Step 1

In a medium bowl, mix together flour, salt, and baking powder. Stir in mashed potatoes and onion until thoroughly combined. In a separate bowl, whisk together eggs and milk, and stir lightly into potato mixture.

Stir in corn syrup and nutmeg, mixing well. Heat a large griddle to medium-high heat. Coat with shortening and spoon potato mixture onto griddle in 12 equal portions. Fry until brown on both sides. Serve hot.

Optional: top w/applesauce

Suggestion: Use sweet potatoes and added green onion, curry powder, salt and pepper with only a tablespoon of flour and one egg. Mixed together and then coated them in panko and fried them in olive oil until crispy. Optional: sprinkled them with Louisiana hot sauce