Colcannon

Cally

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      Easy

Appears in
The Potato Year: 300 Classic Recipes

By Lucy Madden

Published 2015

  • About

Fresh kale with its vivid green shoots is a luxury at this time of year. This is a traditional Irish way of dealing with it and often eaten at Hallowe’en with the inclusion of a gold ring, a thimble, a button and a sixpence. The Oxford English Dictionary has claimed that the word derives from ‘cole’ meaning cabbage and ‘cannon’ referring to the pounding of the mixture with a cannon ball. This would seem to arise out of the usual Anglo-Irish misunderstandings and it is more likely that the w