Coddle
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Coddle (sometimes Dublin coddle; Template:Langx)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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. Traditionally, it can also include barley.
Coddle is particularly associated with Dublin, the capital of Ireland.<ref name="ALIC">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="IrishCentral">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It was reputedly a favourite dish of the writers Seán O'Casey and Jonathan Swift,<ref name="tribune1">Template:Cite newsTemplate:Free access</ref> and it appears in several references to Dublin, including the works of James Joyce.<ref name="TCF">Template:Cite book</ref>
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.<ref name="ALIC" /> Sometimes raw sliced potato is added, but traditionally is eaten with bread.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The only seasonings are usually salt, pepper, and occasionally parsley.
EtymologyEdit
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’.<ref name="IrishCentral"/>
Significance in Irish popular cultureEdit
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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
See alsoEdit
- Colcannon
- List of Irish dishes
- List of potato dishes
- List of sausage dishes
- List of meat and potato dishes
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