Potato cake Irish potato cakes are typically made from mashed potato and flour or baking soda, and are usually fried. This is not the same dish as boxty, because boxty is made using raw potatoes whereas potato cake is made using cooked potatoes. In Ireland, potato cakes are typically known as potato bread, or spud bread, and are served in traditional breakfasts along with soda bread and toast. Potato cake A potato cake is usually made from deep-fried potatoes that have been thinly sliced or mashed. In parts of England and America, a potato cake is a patty of hashed potatoes, a
Crumpet If differentiated from the crumpet, a pikelet is defined as containing no yeast as a raising agent and as being cooked without a ring, making it rather flatter or thinner than a crumpet, and a thinner batter was also used. In Stoke-on-Trent, pikelets were once sold in the town's many oatcake shops. A 1932 recipe for Staffordshire pikelets specifies that they were made with flour and buttermilk, with bicarbonate of soda as a raising agent, and suggests cooking them using bacon fat. The term "pikelet" is used in Australian and New Zealand cuisine for a similarly flat cake, of the