SC - Boxing Day Recipes?

[Nanna Rognvaldardottir]

Iasmin wrote:

>So is boxty like the Cornish "bubble and squeak" then?
>Or something different?

Boxty can be several things but all or almost all versions include grated
raw potatoes, cooked mashed potatoes and flour. The most common version is a
sort of griddle cakes; pan boxty is one large griddle cake cut into four
quarters, boxty pancakes are made from a thinner batter (mixed with
buttermilk and bicarbonate of soda); then there are boxty dumplings, boiled
in water, then sliced and fried; or boxty bread, baked in loaf tins.

I think Boxing Day is "leftover day" in most countries where it is
celebrated (we celebrate it here but simply call it "the Second of
Christmas" - I think that is the case in the rest of Scandinavia also but
I´m not sure if it is a public holiday there as it is here). My mother used
to cook a huge leg of lamb, though, because somehow the leftover smoked lamb
from Christmas day usually disappeared during the night in a mysterious way
...

Anyone interested in the origin of the name and some Boxing Day history
might want to take a look at this page:

http://www.snopes2.com/holidays/xmas/boxing.htm

Nanna