Irish Potato Pancakes

While studying the Irish Potato Plague of 1845-1850, we learned just how important potatoes were to the Irish people. Over a million Irish died of starvation caused by the potato blight in just 5 years. Our project was to try out some Irish food that used potatoes. We decided to make Irish Potato Bread, which ended up looking more like potato pancakes. Here are some photos of our project:

First we had to peel and boil the potatoes

 Then it was time to mash them

Add the rest of the ingredients to make a dough

Make the dough portions into patties

Fry and Eat! They were quite good! 

Some of us had them with sour cream and some preferred butter