Colcannon
Samhain's buttery mash: potatoes whipped with kale or cabbage, scallions and oceans of butter, a coin or ring hidden inside at Halloween. Ingredients: floury potatoes, kale or curly cabbage, scallions or leeks, milk or cream, butter (much), salt, pepper.
What it is
Samhain's buttery mash: potatoes whipped with kale or cabbage, scallions and oceans of butter, a coin or ring hidden inside at Halloween. Ingredients: floury potatoes, kale or curly cabbage, scallions or leeks, milk or cream, butter (much), salt, pepper. Recipe: 1) Boil potatoes; steam the chopped kale. 2) Heat milk with scallions. 3) Mash potatoes with the scallion milk and butter until billowing. 4) Fold through the kale. Serve: in a mound with a well of melting butter in the centre, beside ham or bacon. Flavor: cloud-soft potato, green sweetness, butter. History: colcannon (cál ceannann, 'white-headed cabbage') is Halloween food across Ireland, with charms hidden for fortunes — and a song every Irish child learns. See also: Irish Stew, Boxty.
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