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Irish potato cakes (recipes) and heteromorphic (medicine)


Irish potato cakes (recipes)






Serves 2-4



Preparation time

less than 30 mins



Cooking time

10 to 30 mins

















Ingredients



250g/8oz potatoessalt and black pepper, freshly ground½ head fresh Garden cabbage, finely chopped90ml/6tbsp milk50g/2oz bacon dripping or butter, plus extra for frying125g/4oz wholemeal flour



Method



1. Boil the potatoes in salted water until cooked. Drain, mash and leave to cool.2. Place the cabbage in boiling salted water and cook for a few minutes. Drain and leave to cool.3. Place the milk in a saucepan, add the bacon dripping and bring to the boil. Add the cooked potato and cabbage and blend together while the mixture heats through. Fold in the flour until the mixture comes away from the side of the saucepan.4. Turn the mixture on to a cold surface and shape into cakes of approximately 5cm/2in diameter and 1cm/½in thick.5. Cook in a little bacon dripping until brown and serve immediately.



heteromorphic (medicine)


heteromorphic
<biology> Deviating from the normal, perfect, or mature form; having different forms at different stages of existence, or in different individuals of the same species; applied especially to insects in which there is a wide difference of form between the larva and the adult, and to plants having more than one form of flower.

Origin: Hetero- + Gr. Form.

Source: Websters Dictionary