@contentandwell
Hi,
I never heard of Rumbledethumps before but what a cute name. Bubble and squeak doesn’t use cheese or any other vegetable other than cabbage. I guess my mom and I never did the traditional cake recipe for Bubble and Squeak because we didn’t mash the potatoes and fry everything into a solid cake that could be cut. My mother would briefly sauté leftover cabbage, potatoes and corned beef or ham in lots of butter, occasionally pressing down on the potatoes. When I do it from scratch I sauté sliced cabbage in butter with celery salt and pepper , then add a thinly sliced red potato (with skin) cover the pot and let it all steam until the potato is done. I like a little crunch to the cabbage. I don’t usually make this but was feeling the urge again this time of year with St Patrick’s Day so near.

By the way, I remember my mom making me liver and bacon for breakfast before I went off to school. For all the butter, bacon, bread and potatoes I ate as a kid, all my family were lean machines. I can’t remember a relative who was overweight and the men seemed to be tall and lanky. This was the immediate family and my parents each had a lot of siblings. So the good genes I got really helped me over the years. But we also ate fresh vegetables from the walk to markets and shopped the local butcher’s....New York City...back before the advent of supermarkets...most things within walking distance or a bus ride away. I think we got our toothpaste and TP from the drug stores. I know I bought my makeup from the drug stores as a teenager. I also remember being real excited as a young mother when a supermarket opened near us so I could load up the carriage with food then walk it home and leave the carriage downstairs while I walked up and down 3 flights with baby and food. But the neighbors were great and even the mailman helped lol. A different world indeed back in the late 1960s.

FL Mary