Saint Patrick's Day

Calecannon or Colcannon

The Tradition of Colcannon
OED definition. Colcannon
American Heritage Dictionary. Colcannon
A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. Francis Grose. 1796
The Cook's Oracle. By William Kitchiner 1825
The Cook's Own Book. by N. K. M. Lee, Eliza Leslie. 1832
Leslie, Eliza. Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches. Philadelphia: 1840
A New System of Domestic Cookery. by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell. 1844
The Practice of Cookery Adapted to the Business of Every-day Life.by Dalgairns. 1850
Mackenzie's Five Thousand Receipts. 1854
Household encyclopaedia. 1858
Dainty dishes, receipts. By Harriet Elizabeth Münster-Ledenburg 1866
The Old Virginia Cook Book, Richmond, VA., 1894
Sala, George Augustus. The Thorough Good Cook. 1896
Muskett, Philip E. The Art of Living in Australia, Sidney, 1909 [1893]
Diet Table for the Children. Royal Hibernian Military School. 1819
Colcannon recipe - Historic St Mary's City MD

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