It would, I would come from the Liberties, my family would come from my
mother and father and all my great grandparents and I would come from the
Liberties so it really originated from the Liberties. It was a real
working-class meal because there was very little wages around that time you
know and in fact everything was, it was just the one pot. It was not like now
today you'd have six different choices but everyone just ate out of the one
pot. That's the way it was then. Well I would have learned from my mother. You
know when we were children we always had a coddle. It always seemed to happen on
a Saturday that you had a big pot of coddle going on the cooker. Everybody
made coddles. Everybody and I say I'd say the poor people would have had it a few
days in the week. You know it was a cheap dinner and then if there was
anything left over as I said the daddies could have it when they come in from the
popes. Well it's a very old doublet to the tradition, a coddle. It goes back
probably way way before my time maybe in the 18th century. It wouldn't have been
very much. It would only cost you a couple of pence you know at that time
but then wages was very small you know. The women would only have maybe a
shilling. Doublet people love potatoes. I think it comes from the famine. I think it
does yeah. There's another crops. Our black puddin, our sausages and our onions.
And which are bacon pieces. My first coddle I suppose I would made it for my
husband. But we were well used to it. We knew how to make it you know. It wouldn't
be like if you got a leg of lamb or something or you were cooking meat or
like that and you wouldn't really have the experience of it. But I think
everyone knew how to make a coddle. Bring it to the boil and as soon as it
comes to the boil lower it down and simmer it. Watch it for in around no
more than an hour. It is dying out. You know might come back a little bit into
the restaurants you know or whatever but definitely is dying out. I would I would
make it once a week and anyone come in. Oh that's a lovely smell. I'll have a bit of
that. So they still like the taste of it you know.
It warms the cockles of your heart. It keeps it all colds. It's like an
granted. An anti-buff.
