An alternative to Corned Beef and Cabbage

Jace

Well-known Member
Coddle...is an Irish dish, that is centuries old and originated in Did blin.

It's a slow-cooked one pot wonder - a potato-heavy stew, made with a handful of
simple ingredients: onion,bacon sausage and seasoned with salt, pepper and parsley.

It was traditionally served on Thursdays when families "use up" any leftover "rashers"( bacon)
and sausages from the week.

As this dish was derived from leftovers, sometimes root vegetables or whatever left over
from the week were added.

Anyone ever had? Or something like?
 

Coddle...is an Irish dish, that is centuries old and originated in Did blin.

It's a slow-cooked one pot wonder - a potato-heavy stew, made with a handful of
simple ingredients: onion,bacon sausage and seasoned with salt, pepper and parsley.

It was traditionally served on Thursdays when families "use up" any leftover "rashers"( bacon)
and sausages from the week.

As this dish was derived from leftovers, sometimes root vegetables or whatever left over
from the week were added.

Anyone ever had? Or something like?
No, but it sounds pretty good.
 
I'm all in favor of once-a-week fridge cleanout recipes that eliminate food waste.

I would look forward to the next day's breakfast hash!

"The Irish famine of 1846 killed more than 1,000,000 people, but it killed poor devils only. To the wealth of the country it did not the slightest damage." - Karl Marx
 
A small boiled dinner is an easy option for one or two people if you swap out the corned beef for a ham steak or ring of kielbasa.

You could also go from Ireland to France and make a small pot au feu using fresh beef, pork, or chicken alone or in combination.
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My mother said that when she was a girl (1910-1920's), in her end of town, corned beef was considered infra dig. As a result, she and her friends who liked corned beef would travel to another part of the city where they wouldn't be recognised to buy and eat it.
It was even when I was growing up.. not to the extent of going incognito to buy it...but the poor always bought it either for the working mens lunchboxes or for Corned beef Hash...
 
The old Maggie and Jiggs, Bringing up Father, comic strips helped to perpetuate the notion that corned beef and cabbage was ‘low-rent’.

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