(n.) A small flat loaf or thick cake; also, a fagot.
Example Sentences:
(1) They are part of a family of Irish potato breads and pancakes which include boxty, potato fadge and stampy.
Farl
Definition:
(v. t.) Same as Furl.
Example Sentences:
(1) • You could use any left-over mashed potato to make your next batch of farls.
(2) The less flour and bicarb you use, the denser and moister the farl.
(3) • Farls taste great as an accompaniment to curry.
(4) They provide fertile ground for experimentation with almost no chance of failure – it is hard to cook a bad farl.
(5) For the nervous or novice baker, potato farls are a wonderful way to get started.
(6) Farl experiments melted butter and a sprinkling of salt Photograph: Jill Mead for the Guardian • Make a much lighter, fluffier farl.
(7) • Try making potato farls with fine oatmeal instead of flour.
(8) "Dinner was always potato farls with black pudding and white pudding," she remembers happily.
(9) Recipe by Jane Baxter How to serve your farl Nowadays, farls are most often served with a cooked breakfast or at teatime.
(10) It isn’t so much a cake, in fact, as an entire Ulster breakfast that they want to see sizzling and permanently undiminished on their plate while at the same time forking it, item by fried item – potato farls followed by sausage followed by bacon, eggs and black pudding – down their ready gullets.
(11) I had about 20 people over to my house and we cooked proper potato farls, potato cakes, soda bread and Irish sausages.
(12) The recipe we have given here is for a nice, rich, dense farl – best, in my book, served with nothing but lashings of melted butter and a sprinkling of salt – but we have given other serving ideas.
(13) It's the full English and then some – with added fried soda farl and potato bread.
(14) Potato farls also work well in any recipe that would normally use a muffin, so top them with smoked salmon (or fried mushrooms) and a soft poached egg.
(15) Potato farls Prep time: 15 minutes Cooking time: 30 minutes Makes 8 small farls 500g floury potatoes, such as King Edward or desiree 50g butter 50g plain flour, plus extra for rolling out ¼ tsp baking powder Salt and black pepper Extra butter, for cooking 1 Peel the potatoes, then cut them into quarters.
(16) The word farl literally means "fourths": they are shaped from a circle of dough cut into quarters.