It is natural...for us to trust in ourselves. It is so natural, and so confirmed by the habits of a lifetime, that no ordinary difficulties or perplexities avail to break us of it. It takes all God can do to root up our self-confidence. He must reduce us to despair; He must bring us to such an extremity that the one voice we have in our hearts, the one voice that cries to us wherever we look round for help, is death, death, death. It is out of this despair that the superhuman hope is born. It is out of this abject helplessness that the soul learns to look up with new trust to God… How do most of us attain to any faith in Providence? Is it not by proving, through numberless experiments, that it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps? Is it not by coming, again and again, to the limit of our resources, and being compelled to feel that unless there is a wisdom and a love at work on our behalf, immeasurably wiser and more benign than our own, life is a moral chaos?... Only desperation opens our eyes to God’s love.

James Denney

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Vegetables, Dairy	Irish	Irish, Vegetables	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	lb	Curly kale or cabbage, cooked
1	lb	Potatoes, cooked
1		Onion, chopped
1	oz	Dripping per lb. vegetables
		Salt and pepper
		Milk if necessary
1		Ring, wrapped in greaseproof paper

INSTRUCTIONS

Mash the potatoes or pass them through a food mill. Chop the cabbage or
kale and add it to the potatoes. Mix well. Peel and chop the onion. Melt a
little of the dripping in a large, heavy frying pan and cook the onion in
it.  Remove and mix with the potato and cabbage. Season to taste, and stir
in a little milk if the mixture is too stiff. Add the rest of the dripping
to the hot pan and, when very hot, turn the potato and cabbage mixture into
the pan and spread it out. Fry until brown, then cut it roughly and
continue frying until there are lots of crisp brown pieces. Just before
serving, slip in the wrapped ring ~- the trick, as you can see from the
rhyme, is to make sure the ring doesn't turn up too soon -- then the
children will eat it all willingly!
(from GOOD FOOD FROM IRELAND, Georgina Campbell)
From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

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“If thankfulness does not move us to serve God, then we do not truly understand who our God is and what He has done in our behalf. Without gratitude for Christ’s sacrificial love, our duty will become nothing more than drudgery and our God nothing more than a dissatisfied boss. #Bryan Chapell”