Boxty

Boxty is yet another of the numerous Irish foodstuffs that has poetry written about it. It would have been a mainstay of the home cook's repertoire, two hundred years ago, as a convenient and enjoyable way to use the ubiquitous potato. Boxty has some similarities to other European potato cake recipes, especially latkes.

Apparently Irish men were thought to like boxty a lot, since the most famous of the boxty poems says:

Boxty on the griddle,
boxty in the pan,
if you can't make boxty,
you'll never get a man.

(Your mileage may vary.)

Here's the recipe...