Coddle

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Coddle
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Coddle
Alternative namesDublin coddle
Place of origin Ireland
Main ingredients Potatoes, pork sausage, rashers, onion

Coddle (sometimes Dublin coddle; Irish : cadal) [1] is an Irish dish which is often made to use up leftovers. It most commonly consists of layers of roughly sliced pork sausages and rashers (thinly sliced, somewhat-fatty back bacon) with chunky potatoes, sliced onion, salt, pepper, and herbs (parsley or chives). Traditionally, it can also include barley.

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Coddle is particularly associated with Dublin, the capital of Ireland. [2] [3] [4] It was reputedly a favourite dish of the writers Seán O'Casey and Jonathan Swift, [5] and it appears in several references to Dublin, including the works of James Joyce. [6]

Coddle in Dublin, 2022 Coddle and Guinness.jpg
Coddle in Dublin, 2022

The dish is braised in the stock produced by boiling the pieces of bacon and sausages. The dish is cooked in a pot with a well-fitting lid in order to steam the ingredients left uncovered by the broth. [2] Sometimes raw sliced potato is added, but traditionally is eaten with bread. [7] The only seasonings are usually salt, pepper, and occasionally parsley.

Etymology

The name comes from the verb coddle, meaning to cook food in water below boiling (see coddled egg), which in turn derives from caudle, which comes from the French term meaning ‘to boil gently, parboil or stew’. [3]

Because coddle is seen as particular to Dublin, and because of its unappetising appearance to those who have not seen it before, many Dubliners are defensive of the dish. [8] As with other controversial national dishes such as casu martzu, escargot or hákarl, enthusiasts take the revulsion of the uninitiated as a point of pride—in particular, many coddle enthusiasts see browning the sausages as an unacceptable cop-out. [9]

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  2. 1 2 A Little Irish Cookbook. Appletree. 1986. ISBN   0-86281-166-X.
  3. 1 2 "A traditional Irish cold weather treat Dublin coddle recipe". Irishcentral.com. 24 April 2017. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  4. "From Bacon and Cabbage to Coddle: What is Ireland's national dish?". Independent.ie. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
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  7. Hickey, Margaret (2018). Ireland's green larder : the definitive history of Irish food and drink ([Paperback edition] ed.). London: Unbound. pp. 118–119. ISBN   978-1-78352-799-1. OCLC   1085196202.
  8. "We need to talk about the coddle debate that's dividing the Internet again". The Daily Edge. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
  9. "5 things non-Dubliners need to understand about coddle". The Daily Edge. Retrieved 3 July 2023.