From: "Thomas Womack" Subject: Tuna cakes Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 17:58:17 -0000 This is my first-ever attempt at writing a recipe. I hope I got the conventions right. Take a potato - one of the large ones sold as 'baking potatoes' in Sainsbury's is about the right size, or use multiple smaller ones. Peel it, cut it into about a dozen pieces, put on to boil. Boil for about half an hour, or until you can stick a fork through randomly-chosen pieces fairly easily. Remove from the heat, drain. Add a bit of butter, mash up. Add an egg, mix until well-mixed - this is important to stick the things together. Here the path forks, depending whether you want cheesy potato cakes or tuna potato cakes (add grated cheese, mix until well-mixed) (add about a quarter of one of those large tins of tuna, having drained off the noxious soya oil). Or you can do both, but in that case you should make the cheesy ones by putting some of the grated cheese on a plate and rolling lumps of the potato in it first, then add tuna to the remaining potato mix and stir - it's not really practical to make the tuna ones one at a time unless you cut up the tuna very fine first, which is too much effort. Take a fairly large plate and put some flour on it, also a smaller plate with some flour on it. Take reasonable-sized handfuls of the mix, and roll them into roughly ball-shaped things covered with flour on the smaller plate, then store them on the larger plate. This is messy, but fun; you will have to wash your hands frequently. One large potato made six reasonable-sized balls. Take a frying pan, melt too much butter in it or add a fair quantity of cooking oil, and fry the balls in it until the outsides are turning brown. This may be difficult for the cheesy ones since the cheese sticks to the bottom of the pan, so you probably don't fry those so much. Eat - they probably need a vegetable, but frozen peas are fine. I had these for supper today, and they're really nice.