Candy: recipe Irish Potatos

Subject: recipe Irish Potatos
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
From: dafney (mail at nauticom.net)
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 1997 21:13:35 -0600
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Would any of you fellow culinary lover please know the recipe for Irish Potatos. Thanks in advance
From: prissb at prissb.sdi.agate.net (Skeeter)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 21:33:22 GMT
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Could you be a little more specific? I always thought that Irish Portatoes was another name for white potatoes.
From: Kate Connally (connally at physast1.phyast.pitt.edu)
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 10:28:41 -0800
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Do you mean actual potatoes or do you mean the candy called Irish Potatoes, which uses mashed potato, powdered sugar, and coconut and is shaped like a potato and rolled in cocoa and studded with pine nuts for the "eyes"?
From: prncssdi at ix.netcom.com(Princess Di)
Date: 11 Feb 1997 23:52:38 GMT
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What we consider Irish potatoes are sliced peeled potatoes fried in a bit of butter or oil with sliced peppers and onions. Yummmm!
From: rain at hothouse.iglou.com (Rain)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 01:43:00 GMT
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Everywhere I've seen or heard it, "Irish potatoes" was simply another name for white potatoes as opposed to sweet potatoes. Did you have a more specific Irish potato dish in mind? if you can describe it, I might have a recipe.
From: zimm at hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Laurie Z.)
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 09:46:09 -0500
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The recipe seeker may be looking for the candy which contains cream cheese, a bit of potato, sugar, perhaps coconut, rolled into balls and dusted in cinnamon. We see them in PA around St. Pats.
From: Robert Wolf (rwolf at chesapeake.net)
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 19:28:10 -0800
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Laurie Z. wrote:
> The recipe seeker may be looking for the candy which contains cream
> cheese, a bit of potato, sugar, perhaps coconut, rolled into balls and
> dusted in cinnamon.

2 boxes Conf. sugar
2 tbl vanilla
cinnamon
1 8oz pkg cream cheese
1 7oz pkg. coconut

Soften cream cheese, mix all ingredients except cinnamon. Shape into balls and roll in cinnamon. Refrigerate. Makes 3-4 lb candy. This is my favorite candy. Bob