INGREDIENTS

INSTRUCTIONS

(from IRISH TRADITIONAL FOOD, Theodora Fitzgibbon:)  "This is
traditionally eaten in Ireland at Hallowe'en. Until quite  recently
this was a fast day, when no meat was eaten. The name is  from cal
ceann fhionn -- white-headed cabbage. Colcannon should  correctly be
made with chopped kale (a member of the cabbage family)  but it is also
made with white cabbage;  an interesting version is  the Irish Folklore
Commission's, which gives it as mashed potatoes  mixed with onions,
butter,and a boiled white cabbage in the center.  Colcannon at
Hallowe'en used to contain a plain gold ring, a  sixpence, a thimble or
button: finding the ring meant marriage within  the year for the person
who found it, the sixpence meant wealth, the  thimble spinsterhood and
the button bachelorhood."  (from THE POOLBEG BOOK OF IRISH TRADITIONAL
FOOD:)  "For a dish that is not widely eaten or served today, colcannon
remains remarkably widely known.  Maybe the song about colcannon is
better known than the dish. If you say "colcannon" in a crowded room,
the chances are that half the room will break into one version of the
song and the other into a completely different version. Like the
recipe itself, there are two versions commonly known.  Did you ever eat
colcannon          Did you ever eat colcannon when  'twas made with
yellow cream   when 'twas made with thickened cream  And the kale and
praties blended    And the greens and scallions  blended Like the
picture in a dream? Like the picture in a dream? Did  you ever take a
forkful Did you ever scoop a hole on top And dip it  in the lake To
hold the melting cake Of heather-flavored butter Of  clover-flavored
butter That your mother used to make? Which your  mother used to make?
Oh, you did, yes you did!             Did you ever eat and eat,  afraid
So did he and so did I,  :            You'd let the ring go past, And
the more I think about  it And some old married sprissman Sure, the
more I want to cry. Would  get it at the last?  God be with the happy
times When trouble we had not, And our mothers  made colcannon In the
little three-legged pot. " -- Colcannon is so  like champ, cally,
stampy and poundies that it's difficult to  understand how it ever came
to have a different name. Yet, all over  the country, colcannon is
colcannon and known as nothing else. As in  the two versions of the
song, it can be made with kale or with  greens, meaning cabbage. Those
reared on the version made with kale  can never understand how the
cabbage version can be considered  colcannon, and vice versa...."  From
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