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Calecaunon

From The thorough good cook, 1895

Serves 4

This is an Irish dish.

Presented as published in 1895. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

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Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from The thorough good cook (1895) by George Augustus Sala, page 193. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Calecaunon. This is an Irish dish, and is made by boiling and mashing* green young cabbage and spinach, and then mixing them with good mealy mashed potatoes, butter, pepper, and salt, and pressing the whole into a basin or mould, well buttered. Set in a hot oven Ave or six minutes; then turn out on a dish. In this dish two-thirds should be potatoes

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.