We're at week 45. Where has the year gone? Appropriate for this week, we're asked to share a favorite recipe for the holidays. I flipped through the recipe box and after I eliminated those from the Betty Crocker Cookbook I received as a wedding present several decades ago, I read through the handwritten recipe cards. Various recipes were considered and tossed aside and I settled on a heritage recipe. Lokse is a potato pancake from my Slavic coal-country ancestry. My grandmother cooked it on the top on a cast-iron stove, but adapted the recipe for a cast-iron frying pan. In the old country, Lokse can still be found at holiday festivals with different toppings. Although my favorite and the one most used by my family is just plain butter.
Lokse was also the focus of a post in the 2017 MFRW challenge. So instead of re-posting the recipe, I'll just include a link to the post, Lokse - A Heritage.
Now I'm hungry. Since it has been a while since I had some lokse, this would be a good time to schedule a cooking day with the next generation and start teaching them. Although she never met any of them, I'm sure my grandmother would approve passing on her recipe to her great-great-grand-daughters.
~till next time, Helen
My mother occasionally made potato pancakes. I loved them, especially with applesauce.
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