Plate RC-003
Cawl: The Welsh Stew a Canteen Still Serves in Winter
Cawl, the lamb and root vegetable stew recognised as a national dish of Wales, and why a canteen on a Cardiff street still serves a version of it in winter.
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CL-004 counters · 10 entries
The Canteen Ledger
Every entry in this ledger is a numbered record on one question about the Canteen on Clifton Street: what the menus held, how a dish from the kitchen is made at home, where the room sat on the street and how the canteen worked day to day. Entries are read from the archive, the local press and the recipes kept in print, then filed under one of four counters.
Plate 00: the counter at first light, where the entries begin.
Latest entries on the counter
10 entries
Plate PR-002
Allergen Information on a Canteen Counter
What UK food law actually requires a canteen counter to tell a customer about allergens, for food served loose rather than pre-packed.
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Plate MN-004
York County on the Fourth: Parades, Parking and Fireworks
A plain guide to Fourth of July logistics in York, Pennsylvania: parade routes around Continental Square, parking, fireworks times and rain plans.
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Plate MN-003
Reading a Coffee Bag: Roast Levels, Dates and Origins
What a coffee bag tells the reader: roast levels, roast dates, origin and tasting notes, explained plainly for home brewers.
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Plate MN-002
The Table That Waits After the Day
How a canteen menu is built for tired, hungry regulars at the end of a working day, and what a lodge table after a day outdoors teaches a kitchen.
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Plate MN-001
Sardinian Plates on a Clifton Street Counter
A Welsh canteen borrows the Sardinian habit of small plates and market produce, keeping its own voice on Clifton Street in Cardiff.
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Plate RC-002
Farmhouse Seasonality on a Canteen Menu
A canteen menu leans on farmhouse seasonality: the vegetables that arrive first, how a farmhouse turns a surplus into a dish, and what a canteen can borrow.
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Plate ST-001
Reading Clifton Street Through Its Kitchens
A walk down Clifton Street read through kitchen windows, counters and shopfronts, and what that habit shares with a neighbourhood hotel counter.
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Plate MN-004
York County on the Fourth: Parades, Parking and Fireworks
A plain guide to Fourth of July logistics in York, Pennsylvania: parade routes around Continental Square, parking, fireworks times and rain plans.
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Plate MN-003
Reading a Coffee Bag: Roast Levels, Dates and Origins
What a coffee bag tells the reader: roast levels, roast dates, origin and tasting notes, explained plainly for home brewers.
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Plate MN-002
The Table That Waits After the Day
How a canteen menu is built for tired, hungry regulars at the end of a working day, and what a lodge table after a day outdoors teaches a kitchen.
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Plate RC-001
Laverbread Roulade and the Welsh Larder
Laverbread roulade, its Welsh ingredients, and what a back-country larder teaches about preserving and reusing what is close at hand.
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Plate RC-003
Cawl: The Welsh Stew a Canteen Still Serves in Winter
Cawl, the lamb and root vegetable stew recognised as a national dish of Wales, and why a canteen on a Cardiff street still serves a version of it in winter.
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Plate RC-002
Farmhouse Seasonality on a Canteen Menu
A canteen menu leans on farmhouse seasonality: the vegetables that arrive first, how a farmhouse turns a surplus into a dish, and what a canteen can borrow.
Entry checked on
Plate ST-001
Reading Clifton Street Through Its Kitchens
A walk down Clifton Street read through kitchen windows, counters and shopfronts, and what that habit shares with a neighbourhood hotel counter.
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Plate PR-001
The Canteen Counter, Re-Set at Seven
How a canteen counter is stocked, cleared and re-set before the first customer, and what it shares with a small family hotel breakfast room.
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Plate PR-002
Allergen Information on a Canteen Counter
What UK food law actually requires a canteen counter to tell a customer about allergens, for food served loose rather than pre-packed.
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MN-000
How an entry is written
One question, one reference number, one captioned plate. The answer comes first, then the sections a reader can jump to, then the sources the ledger actually read. An entry is revised when a source changes, and its date says when it was last checked.
Sites worth visiting
A short selection of external pages that complement what we publish here.
corn derivatives, label reading in Canada The Canteen Ledger notes that cornfree.ca, kept by Sara Scharf from 2003 to 2016, sets out corn derivatives, label reading in Canada, and hidden corn in medicines, in English and French.
unworn and pre-owned Swiss watches The Canteen Ledger notes that lex-watches.com, a Dutch trading partnership registered in 2009, listed unworn and pre-owned Swiss watches by model, number, material, diameter, movement and condition, with brands from Rolex to Sinn.
before a flight home The Leaving Ledger records the last three months before a flight home from Japan: notice at work, cancelled utilities, ward office paperwork, the year's tax, the pension refund, and what waits after landing.