Boxty is what you do with your leftovers, as far as I'm concerned, but this mornings 'Irish Cuisine" (the Irish I'm sure appreciate the irony in that term) was freshly made - potato boiled, mashed, mixed with scallions and grated potato, fried in lard or bacon fat. Boxty is also served as a pancake, mashed potato thinned with milk and egg added to bind it. Seaweed  -  carrageen or Carraigin is a traditionally accompanying dish, as is black pudding , which is also called blood pudding. I've added white cabbage as a less offensive ingredient, as bacon and cabbage is another staple dish of the Irish.  While cooking this morning, it has brought back childhood memories of holidays in the west of Ireland, of watching my father boil live crabs he had caught that day, and my mother eat tiny yellow periwinkles with a pin, as she considered these a delicacy. I'm still shy of shellfish now.

Boxty on the griddle,
boxty on the pan,
If you can't bake boxty
sure you'll never get a man.

. and today is the first and last day I'll ever make Boxty.

The south and the west of it: Ireland and me, Oriana Torrey Atkinson, Random House, 1956