My grandmother use to come and stay with us while my Dad and step Mom were at work. She was essentially the baby sitter. She helped out around the house, cooked for us since we were too young to cook. I remember her making these and I always really enjoyed them. I haven’t made them in a while and today I decided to make some.

Ingredients:

• Leftover mashed potatoes (cold)
• Flour
• Butter

Take the leftover mashed potatoes and pat them out like you would a hamburger, not as big though. Then take the potato cake patty and roll it around in the flour, making sure you coat it pretty good. You may have to flatten it out again once you are done. Once you do that put the potato cake in a skillet with butter already melted. Make sure you don’t turn the skillet up too high, you don’t want to burn it. A medium heat will work best for this. Brown it like you would a grilled cheese.

Once they are done plate them up and you can either have them with salt and pepper or if you really want to try something different, put some jelly on top of them. They make an excellent lunch item.

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