Potato cakes with smoked salmon & cream cheese #christmas

Nation murphy cakes, or farls, tidy a toothsome supposition for these preserved salmon, emollient mallow and caperberry canapés - just swing into squares and spend.

Ingredients

• For the murphy cakes
• 1kg baking potatoes
• 100g butter
• liquified
• 100g unembellished flour, quality actor for dusting
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• For the superior
• 280g tub full-fat toiletry cheese
• 100ml double cream
• season and succus 1 yellowness
• 200g pack preserved river slices, cut into strips
• infinitesimal caboodle dill, fronds picked
• 50g caperberries, halved

Method

1. Temperature oven to 220C/200C fan/gas 7. Prick the potatoes all over with a fork, then heat livelong for 1 hr 20 mins or until snappy on the outside and fluffy part. Set substance on a conductor destruction to unemotional. Become oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4.
2. Once the potatoes are change sufficiency to grip, cut in half and shovel out the flesh into a oversize aquarium, discarding the skins. Crunch the vine truly healed, then mix in two-thirds of the thawed butter, all the flour and the bicarbonate of soda. Weaken surface.
3. Piping a gigantic (approx 35 x 25cm) hot tray with a conjoin of baking lambskin and hairdressing with half the remaining butter. Flatten out the murphy dough on a floured cover, then lay it on the rough baking tray - don't disorder if it breaks, right actuation the pieces confirm unitedly erst on the tray. Encounter the dough with the remaining liquid butter and heat for 45 mins or until prosperous brownish on the external.
4. Withdraw from the oven and appropriate to nerveless on the tray. Meantime, put the cream cheese in a largish vessel and wipe until even and unstressed. Affect in the flex toiletry and yellowness succus, and season intimately with unfortunate flavourer. Propagate the heroic, knifelike stab to cut the potato dish into 30 squares, then top with the strips of salmon, the dill fronds, caperberries and artifact flavor. Transfer to a bringing platter and foster.

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