Irish Vegetable Roll

ms. tonya

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Mar 8, 2009, 8:40:38 PM3/8/09

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With St. Patrick's Day coming up been calling around grocery stores in
the Detroit area - CorkTown- for Northern Ireland's vegetable roll
without success even lurking online.

Would anyone here have a tried & proved recipe they could share, even
trying to find bangers/white pudding is getting me no where.

TIA.

Lynn from Fargo Ografmorffig

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Mar 8, 2009, 11:21:05 PM3/8/09

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What is vegetable roll? I know that bangers are sausages and I know
that pudding doesn't mean chocolate or vanilla but what kind of
pudding is white?
Lynn in Fargo
had four British grandparents

dejablues

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Mar 9, 2009, 8:45:58 AM3/9/09

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"ms. tonya" <Tony...@webtv.net> wrote in message
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There are some recipes online but they don't seem to be difficult or conatin
much vegetable matter.
" Beef sausage meat, ordinary sausages skinned will do, or minced steak.
Finely chop leeks and onion, allow half an ounce of spice per lb - a basic
mix is salt, pepper and nutmeg - and then mix the whole lot together, form
into a roll or individual cakes and fry or grill".

Arri London

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Mar 9, 2009, 3:03:59 PM3/9/09

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Can't help you with a recipe; my cookbooks are from the Republic rather
than Ulster. It is basically minced beef (sausage meat) mixed with
leeks, green/spring onions, carrots etc, shaped into a roll and cooked.
Then sliced and fried for an Ulster Fry yum yum.

We can do you a nice white pudding though :)

From: The Poolbeg Book of Traditional Irish Cooking (paraphrased)

4 oz grated pork fat (from the stomach) or beef suet
6 oz coarsely ground oatmeal
1 tbs wholemeal flour (wholewheat)
2 oz pork liver
1/2 stick of celery
1 small onion, peeled and finely chopped
1/2 cup broth (from cooking the liver)
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
1 tbs dried thyme

Cook the liver and pour the broth over the oats to soak for a few hours
or overnight. Grate/chop the liver.
Soften the onion and celery in some of the fat. Add the rest of the fat,
the vegetables and seasonings to the soaked oatmeal. Mix thoroughly.
Shape into a long sausage about 1 1/2 inches in diameter. Roll the
sausage into a cloth (muslin/cheesecloth/teatowel) and tie both ends
with string. Bring a large pot of water to a boil and place the pudding
into it. Turn down the heat and simmer for about one hour. Take it out
and let it cool before removing the cloth. Can be eaten hot or cold or
cut into slices and fried in bacon fat....

Arri London

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Mar 9, 2009, 3:13:16 PM3/9/09

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White pudding is a sausage made with pork liver and oats. Compare with
the French boudin blanc (pork or chicken with cream) or the Cajun boudin
blanc (pork and rice).
Vegetable roll is beef minced meat mixed with leeks, spring/green onions
and other vegs as the cook choose. Rolled into a sausage shape.

Kate Connally

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Mar 9, 2009, 2:31:43 PM3/9/09

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dejablues wrote:
> "ms. tonya" <Tony...@webtv.net> wrote in message
> news:6285-49B...@storefull-3311.bay.webtv.net...
>> With St. Patrick's Day coming up been calling around grocery stores in
>> the Detroit area - CorkTown- for Northern Ireland's vegetable roll
>> without success even lurking online.
>>
>> Would anyone here have a tried & proved recipe they could share, even
>> trying to find bangers/white pudding is getting me no where.
>
> There are some recipes online but they don't seem to be difficult or conatin
> much vegetable matter.

Isn't meat considered a vegetable in that part of the world? ;-)

Kate

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Dimitri

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Mar 9, 2009, 2:39:20 PM3/9/09

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"Kate Connally" <conn...@pitt.edu> wrote in message
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> dejablues wrote:
>> "ms. tonya" <Tony...@webtv.net> wrote in message
>> news:6285-49B...@storefull-3311.bay.webtv.net...
>>> With St. Patrick's Day coming up been calling around grocery stores in
>>> the Detroit area - CorkTown- for Northern Ireland's vegetable roll
>>> without success even lurking online.
>>>
>>> Would anyone here have a tried & proved recipe they could share, even
>>> trying to find bangers/white pudding is getting me no where.
>>
>> There are some recipes online but they don't seem to be difficult or
>> conatin much vegetable matter.
>
> Isn't meat considered a vegetable in that part of the world? ;-)
>
> Kate
>
> --
> Kate Connally

Potatoes too.

:-)

Dimitri

Lynn from Fargo Ografmorffig

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Mar 9, 2009, 4:16:29 PM3/9/09

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Thank you very much. My mother made the beef suet pudding /pastry
that gets rolled out and filled with beef and potatoes and steamed in
the same manner. I haven't made it in years . . . miss it but not the
cholesterol
Lynn in Fargo