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Bacon and Cabbage with Parsley Sauce · Cork
The most consistent Sunday family dish across Cork and Munster: a boiled gammon joint or rolled bacon shoulder with savoy cabbage cooked in the same liquor, served with a parsley white sauce and floury potatoes.
Bacon and cabbage was the daily protein of rural Munster cottages from the 18th century, the back rasher boiled in a single pot with a head of York cabbage, finished with a parsley sauce thickened with flour and milk. Cork city remained Ireland's largest pork curing centre into the 20th century, with Henry Denny's North Main Street smokehouse defining the regional style; the Denny brand still ships nationally. Cork pubs and traditional rooms (the Long Valley, the Mutton Lane Inn) keep the dish on the Tuesday and Thursday lunch carvery, often with mashed potato and a thick parsley sauce, the canonical Irish bacon-and-cabbage plate.
Where to eat in Cork:
- Jacobs on the Mall
- Greenes Restaurant
- The Long Valley Bar
- Cornstore
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