The binding without egg is the part most likely to need adjusting.
- Rehydrate the dried onion in 40 ml of just-boiled water, ten minutes.
- Drain and dry the sweetcorn and potatoes hard. Crush the potatoes coarsely.
- Flour, baking powder, curry powder and salt mixed. The onion with its soaking water stirred in, then enough extra water to make a thick batter: thicker than you think, it should barely drop off the spoon.
- Sweetcorn and crushed potato folded through.
- Generous oil in a hot pan. Heaped spoonfuls, flattened. Four minutes a side, turned once only.
If the first one falls apart, work another spoonful of flour through the mixture. If it is dense and heavy, the batter was too wet.
Makes about 8, serving 3.