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Coddle or Stew?

Uncle Ben

Considering the weather I'm thinking of having one of the above for dinner tomorrow. I'm quite partial to both, and have a slight penchant for the auld boiled, pale sausages. It's a mixed bag in this house however and not all are fond of same.
What's your pleasure?

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0byme75341jo28

I'd love a cuddle

Melisandre121

Can someone explain to me what coddle actually is?

Eutow

Melisandre121 wrote: »

Can someone explain to me what coddle actually is?

Boiled potatos, boiled rashers, boiled sausages and onions. The juices and water from this are then served with the food above.

Day Lewin

The word "to coddle" means to cook very gently by leaving at a bare simmer in hot liquid, undisturbed, until tender.
It is a one-dish meal that must have been evolved by poor families with only one fireplace to cook over and possibly only one pan!
Even so when carefully made it is a very good dish and the traditional food in Dublin for Saturday nights. The handful of pot-herbs is a characteristic and distinctive flavouring.

djerk

As an irishman, why have i never heard of this before? ..seems to me like the poor mans stew. (apologies for my ignorance, us crusties were eating monkfish as a substitute for lobster down west).

ps. stew

WoollyRedHat

Both,try a bit of Col Cannon too, wash it all down with some real expensive champagne. Carpe diem man, yolo.

Littlekittylou

Cora Squeaking Zit wrote: »

I'd love a cuddle

Me too!
*Cuddles you*

evo2000

Uncle Ben wrote: »

Considering the weather I'm thinking of having one of the above for dinner tomorrow. I'm quite partial to both, and have a slight penchant for the auld boiled, pale sausages. It's a mixed bag in this house however and not all are fond of same.
What's your pleasure?

Go Stew or Go home, seriously tho, theres STEW!! and then theres ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................the rest....

Littlekittylou

Veg soup....i know its neither coddle or stew. I don't eat meat {:-)

JupiterKid

F**k coddle - buriros for me please!

Dan_Solo

Eutow wrote: »

Boiled potatos, boiled rashers, boiled sausages and onions. The juices and water from this are then served with the food above.

And what do you do with it?
You eat it.
How revolting!
:-)

Ihatecuddles

Coddle, only ever had it once and I made it myself. It was absolutely delicious. I love a good next day stew, but coddle is just fantastic.

Going to make it this week and see what my husband thinks.

MonkeyTennis

A handy alternative to eating coddle is not eating it.....because its vile.

Boiling sausages. What is wrong with you people

Eutow

Dan_Solo wrote: »

And what do you do with it?
You eat it.
How revolting!
:-)

Haven't had it in years. Growing up I had very little choice. I don't miss it at all.

Egginacup

Uncle Ben wrote: »

Considering the weather I'm thinking of having one of the above for dinner tomorrow. I'm quite partial to both, and have a slight penchant for the auld boiled, pale sausages. It's a mixed bag in this house however and not all are fond of same.
What's your pleasure?

Shepherd's Pie

Ihatecuddles

MonkeyTennis wrote: »

A handy alternative to eating coddle is not eating it.....because its vile.

Boiling sausages. What is wrong with you people

Boiled sausages are great! I put them in stew. So good.

anncoates

Anybody that picked stew: go and hang your bollix off the five lamps :pac:

Dan_Solo

Eutow wrote: »

Haven't had it in years. Growing up I had very little choice. I don't miss it at all.

Perhaps not the widely known classic I had hoped, that's a quote from Highlander about haggis...

RomanKnows

I could never stomach the appearance of coddle. The sickly white sausage peering out from the broth like the withered and flaccid penis of a dying pensioner. The bits of boiled rasher looking like flakes of sunburnt scrotum.

So, stew for me. Very partial to a good homemade lamb stew.

MonkeyTennis

If have spuds bacon and sausages I can think of many many ways of making a nice dinner.

Zanablue

RomanKnows wrote: »

I could never stomach the appearance of coddle. The sickly white sausage peering out from the broth like the withered and flaccid penis of a dying pensioner. The bits of boiled rasher looking like flakes of sunburnt scrotum.

So, stew for me. Very partial to a good homemade lamb stew.

Haha! after reading that I will always look at coddle in a different way.

I prefer a stew but I like coddle too.

fizzypish

I'm not from the capital so the first time I had it was last year in a pub grub place in the Dublin. Didn't look fantastic nor did it taste brilliant. As a meal that was made from bits of leftovers, its not bad but I'd be unlikely to go for it again. Stew all the way!

anncoates

RomanKnows wrote: »

The sickly white sausage peering out from the broth like the withered and flaccid penis of a dying pensioner. .

I really hope you gleaned this from summer work in a morgue.

Day Lewin

Quote:
Originally Posted by RomanKnows View Post
The sickly white sausage peering out from the broth like the withered and flaccid penis of a dying pensioner. .

This is a fair point, the flavour might be better than the appearance: but all can be put right with a large handful of chopped parsley scattered on top.

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katemarch wrote: »

There should never be carrots in coddle. Wrong, wrong, wrong. This ought to be the purest of austere local food.
Potato, onion, rasher, sausage. Served with bread'n'butter and a glass of beer.

See this fine recipe: http://thetastebudtest.blogspot.ie/2011/01/coddle.html

Never ever should the rashers and sausages be cut up going into a coddle!

Irishcrx

Needs a poll, very serious issue.

It's stew for me.

jake66

Coddle is a big hit in Irish prisons.
The dirtbirds can,t seem to get enough of it...
When they know it on they go running back to the cells for their bowls aswell as platefuls of anemic muck...

Magico Gonzalez

Only a dub could love coddle, sewer juice with boiled meat.

No thanks.

padd b1975

Chicken casserole with plenty of thighs.

Steve_Carella

Coddle was an end of the week meal back in the days when working class people (mainly in Dublin) couldn't afford fridges. Every couple of days whatever meat was there was boiled up, often with a few vegetables, or it would go off. As a result, there is no such thing as one definitive recipe for authentic coddle, since it varied from house to house. And since each individual house would have the same people living in it, they would therefore have effectively the same coddle week in week out. Other countries have traditional recipes that developed the same way - for example, paella and minestrone are similar 'throw it all in the pot and cook it up' recipes.

In my house, a coddle when I was a kid was sausages, rashers (not cut up, whoever said that), onion quartered, chunks of heart and black pudding, with a load of tomato puree stirred in towards the end of the cooking (ie boiling) process. No veg at all (apart from the onion). You'd eat a big bowl of it with thick slices of bread on a Sunday morning. But I don't make it any more. Meat now tastes different to when I was a kid. The black pudding just falls apart.

However, it's given me a lifelong love of meat cooked in tomato sauce so mmmm Italian.