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Best Bacon and cabbage in Sydney
“Back bacon and cabbage boiled together, their juices clinging to each slice, finished with a creamy white sauce.”
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Bacon and cabbage (Irish: bagún agus cabáiste) is a dish especially associated with Ireland. The dish consists of sliced back bacon boiled with cabbage served with potatoes. Smoked bacon is sometimes used. The dish is served with the bacon sliced, and with some of the boiling juices added. Another common accompaniment to the dish is white sauce, which consists of flour, butter and milk, sometimes with a flavouring of some sort (often parsley). The dish has been known since Roman times, and was also associated with England.
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Bacon and cabbage is Irish comfort food built on honest simplicity: back bacon and cabbage boiled together, their cooking liquid clinging to each slice, served alongside potatoes. A white sauce made from flour, butter, and milk—often brightened with parsley—pools on the plate, binding everything into something greater than the sum of its parts. This isn't new invention; it's a dish that has traveled through centuries and across the Irish Sea.
Order it here when it has
- simple preparation
- historically rooted
- sauce integration
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