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This Irish side-dish features Potatoes, Chopped scallions, Milk, Butter. It delivers smooth, comforting richness. A reliable recipe that works well for everyday cooking. Simple to make with ingredients you likely already have on hand, this is a recipe you will come back to again and again.
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Champ (Or Poundies
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This Irish side-dish features Potatoes, Chopped scallions, Milk, Butter. It delivers smooth, comforting richness. A reliable recipe that works well for everyday cooking. Simple to make with ingredients you likely already have on hand, this is a recipe you will come back to again and again.Ingredients
Directions
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Pepper Champ is served piled high on the dish, with a well of melted butter in the center.
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It is eaten with a spoon from the outside, each spoonful being dipped in the well of melted butter.
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Peel potatoes and cook in boiling water.
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Simmer milk and scallions together for five minutes.
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Strain potatoes and mash thoroughly.
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Add hot milk, and the scallions, salt and pepper, and half the butter.
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The traditional implement used for pounding potatoes was a wooden masher, pestle-shaped, called a "beetle." The poem says: .
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There was an old woman that lived in a lamp; she had no room to beetle her champ.
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She's up'd with her beetle and broke the lamp, and now she has room to beetle her champ
Nutrition Facts
Servings 8
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories 1171.6kcal
- % Daily Value *
- Total Fat 84.0g130%
- Saturated Fat 52.8g264%
- Cholesterol 220.0mg74%
- Sodium 770.2mg33%
- Total Carbohydrate 89.8g30%
- Dietary Fiber 10.0g40%
- Sugars 16.2g
- Protein 18.5g37%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily value may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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