This is the fourth part of our Irish Cuisine blog post series. Today, we feature bacon and cabbage as well as Irish black and white pudding. See first part here featuring Irish soda bread and Irish stew. Read the second part here featuring boxty and colcannon. Last week, we feature champ and barmbrack. More of World Cuisine here.
Irish Cuisine: Bacon And Cabbage And Black And White Pudding
Bacon And Cabbage. Unsliced back bacon is boiled with cabbages and potatoes.
Bacon and Cabbage by Katherine | DoChara
Bacon and Cabbage by Katherine | DoChara
Ingredients
A 3-4 lb Loin of Bacon or Corned Beef Brisket
2 Onions
2 Carrots
1 Stick of celery
Cabbage
A small pat of butter
Tablespoon each of honey and wholegrain mustard
Good pinch of ground cloves
See recipe here.
Black And White Pudding. Black pudding is a sausage made from cooked pig’s blood, pork fat, rind, shoulder and liver, oats, onions, rusk (wheat starch, salt), water, salt, pimento and seasoning. White pudding is similar to that of black pudding but without pig’s blood.
Black Pudding (Ireland) by Mr Breakfast | mrbreakfast.com
Irish black pudding and white pudding slices. By O’Dea at WikiCommons, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25827153
Ingredients
1 pound cooked barley
1 pound fresh beef suet
1 quarter pint fresh pig’s blood (seriously)
8 ounces bread crumbs
8 ounces fine oatmeal
1/4 pint skimmed milk – warmed to room temperature
1 small onion – chopped
2 teaspoons pepper
2 teaspoons dried mint
1 and 1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon allspice
See recipe here.
White Pudding (Ireland) by Mr Breakfast | mrbreakfast.com
Ingredients
1 pound fresh beef suet
9 ounces fine oatmeal
1 small onion – chopped
2 teaspoons white pepper
1 and 1/2 teaspoon salt
See recipe here.
FEATURE IMAGE CREDIT:
Irish black pudding and white pudding slices. By O’Dea at WikiCommons, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25827153
