This is a very traditional recipe for potato cakes, with only a few ingredients. Potatoes, salt, butter and flour. Its like magic! Simple ingredients put together in a very delicious way. These little cakes are ideal served warm, for breakfast or tea time! You wouldn't think that a few simple ingredients could create something so tasty, but they do. Proof positive that some of the very best things in life are, and come from . . . simple things. Mashed potatoes (without any milk added) are mixed together with a knob of butter until it melts, and a hefty pinch of salt. You then let it cool to room temperature. Once it is cold you knead in plain flour, and that it is. Roughly 1/3 the weight of flour as the potatoes. Make sure your potatoes are really dry when you mash them. Shake the pot over the residual heat in the burner to dry them out. You also want to use a floury type of potato, suitable for mashing. Not a new...