Never understood why people want to make fish cakes by mashing up potatoes and fish with parsley and coating it with breadcrumbs.
As anyone who has been to a Bradford (West Yorkshire, England) fish and chip shop knows, a cake is made from layers of sliced potato and the bits of fish trimmed off the main fish fillets before they are battered and cooked. The layered fish and potato form flat cakes about an inch thick and shaped somewhere between round and oval with a diameter of four to six inches. It is then dipped in batter and deep fried.
It is known as a fish cake in other parts of West Yorkshire, although in Keighley the same item would be known as a Scone.
Quack!
Geoff.