Jiggs Dinner



Jiggs dinner (ramblingmomma03.blogspot.com)



With the passing of Easter not that long ago, I figured it's about time I talked about Jiggs Dinner. Now this dinner is not only for special occasions, sometimes its whenever you feel like it, but it's a garantee that come thanks giving, christmas, easter or any other special holiday, you know what your going to be eating.

A jiggs dinner is when you boiling carrots, cabage, potatos,turnip, collards, a bag of peas pudding in a big boiler with salt beef. You also would cook a turkey and/or a roast/duck/other bird, depending on the number of people you'd be having over.

The first thing to be added to the boiling water is the salt beef, because alot of the times (though depending on if the bucket of beef you get is a good one or bad one), the water must be "freshed up". This means taking away some of the water made salty by the beef and adding fresh water. After the beef gets cooking, you add the pudding bag full of split peas to the water. Then you add your carrots, cabage, turnip and collards. The last thing to be added is the potatos because when they're done, so is everything else! Below I've made a list of cooking time for the vegetables. The time in the brackets is how long the water has been boiling before you add the vegetable)

Cabbage & Collards 40 minutes (1 hour, 20 minutes)

Turnips& Carrots 30 minutes (1hour, 30 minutes)

Potatoes 20 minutes (1 hour, 40 minutes)

After two hours everything should be done and all that's left to do is scoop out and sort the vegetables. Serve with fresh home made bread, pickled beets, stuffing and gravy. Any left overs can be mashed up and eaten the next day as hash.

Here's a link to the actually recipe. http://www.food.com/recipe/jiggs-dinner-15129

Bon appetite! Until next time me duckies!