16 June: Bloomsday, and a bowl of Dublin Coddle
Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom around Dublin on a single day, 16 June 1904, and Dubliners still celebrate it as Bloomsday. The day calls for Dublin's own pot: coddle, sausages, rashers and potatoes cooked slowly under a lid.
Soup of the day
Dublin Coddle
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Coddle is a Dublin dish of pork sausages, bacon rashers, potatoes and onions slowly cooked together in a covered pot. The sausages and rashers are first boiled or browned, and the liquid becomes the stock.
Read about Dublin Coddle and get the recipe →What happened
Bloomsday: James Joyce's Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom through Dublin on 16 June 1904.
Why this soup
Bloomsday is Dublin's day; coddle is Dublin's dish.
Sources
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