The Thorough Good Cook
by George Augustus Sala
recipes from 1896

A digital version of a rare antique cookbook originally published in 1896 for those who want to kick it Olde Skool !
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12. Calecannon.
  This is an Irish dish, and is made by boiling and mashing
green young cabbage and spinach, and then mixing them
with good mealy mashed potatoes, butter, pepper, and salt,
and pressing the whole into a basin or mould, well buttered.
Set in a hot oven five or six minutes ; then turn out on
a dish. In this dish two-thirds should be potatoes.
 
 

 
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