BALLYFORAN
Brown's Dolmen
Dublin
a B&B on the Irish Coast
Ireland is Incomparable! Just ask . . .
Marilyn and Bill.
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IRISH HAM
& CABBAGE
From BRITISH COOKERY: a complete
guide to culinary practice in the British Isles
4 lb picnic ham
1 bay leaf
6 peppercorns
Breadcrumbs
Brown sugar
1 large cabbage
·
Boil
the ham with bay leaf and peppercorns for 1 hour 40 minutes.
·
Remove
ham. Boil cabbage in the ham stock until
tender.
·
Mash
cabbage thoroughly.
·
Preheat
oven to 450.
·
Strip
off bacon rind and coat top of ham with breadcrumbs and brown sugar.
·
Bake
ham 15 minutes until crisp.
·
Reheat
cabbage in oven at same time and serve with ham.
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and Green Beer in Port Aransas, Texas
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I had doubts about mashing cabbage, but decided to try mashing
some of the cabbage. I quartered the
cabbage and cooked/simmered it for 30 minutes in the pot with a lid on it. The smallest chunk did mash pretty well.
Anastasia and I did a taste comparison on the mashed cabbage
versus unmashed and decided that the mashed actually had more flavour!
So I put the lid back on and cooked the cabbage another 15
minutes. It did mash/smash up but maybe
you could cook it even longer. I’m just
not sure how mashed it’s supposed to be.
But it was good.
THE HAM was SO good that Anastasia said it may even be better than her roasted ham so she's going to try boiling her next ham! I didn’t put on any breadcrumbs; just a bit of brown sugar. Also I did NOT strip off the rind. The ham looked great when it came out of the oven after only 15 minutes.
I served the ham and cabbage with those fantastic
Scene-Stealing Potatoes I blogged 5 years ago:
Green Donuts on St. Patrick's Day, 2017, in Rockport, Texas
and Green Beer in Port Aransas, Texas
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