Recipe - Potato And Dried Pear Pancake Squares

900 g Floury potatoes; boiled in
their
; skins
25 g Butter; softened
50 ml Double cream
75 g Plain flour; sifted
65 g Dried pears; cut or sliced up and
soaked
; for 10 minutes in
; warm water
Salt; pepper and nutmeg
75 g Smoked speck or streaky
bacon; cut into narrow
; strips.

Preheat the oven to 190c/375f/gas 5.

Peel the cooked potatoes while they are still hot and pass them through a
fine blade of a moulilegume (or mash very, very thoroughly). Beat in the
butter and cream, then sprinkle in the flour. Beat hard to mix thoroughly.
Drain the pears well and add those too, and season with salt, pepper and
nutmeg.

Grease a 30x30cm baking tray and spread the mixture out thinly in it it
should be no more than 1cm thick at most. Scatter over the pieces of speck
or bacon. Bake in the oven for 3040 minutes, until browned and crisp on
top. Cut into large squares and eat hot or warm.

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