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Bread and Butter Pudding with Rich Whiskey Sauce

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  • cream
  • fruit
  • whiskey
The climate in Ireland makes you want comfort food every now and then, and this dessert is one of the best kinds. A century or so ago, bread and milk...

IrishDessertLady

January 17, 2018
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Not so nutty: Fruitcakes in Ireland

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  • cake
  • Guinness
  • Irish ingredients
  • seasonal: winter
Cakes rich in fruit have always been popular in Ireland, for a number of reasons. Initially it had a lot to do with household equipment. It wasn’t until about the...

IrishDessertLady

January 10, 2018
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Rich Guinness Cake

Cooking Time: 3 hours
  • alcohol
  • cake
  • Guinness
This recipe is adapted from one in Clare Connery’s In an Irish Country Kitchen, and is light (as Irish fruitcakes go) and well balanced in terms of flavor — the...

IrishDessertLady

January 8, 2018
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Caraway or caraways? Irish herbs and spices

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  • historic
  • Irish ingredients
  • Spices
For a long time Ireland’s unique circumstances as a country at the far edge of European experience meant that its food traditions were severely isolated from other European traditions and...

IrishDessertLady

January 8, 2018
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Baileys Marbled Cheesecake

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  • cake
  • coffee
  • cream
  • Irish ingredients
    The “base” recipe for this rich and luscious cheesecake is derived from the famous cheesecake native to the venerable New York restaurant Lindy’s.  (More about that cheesecake’s history here.) In...

    IrishDessertLady

    November 28, 2017
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    Orange and Lemon Carrageen Pudding

    • fruit
    • Irish ingredients
    • nonalcoholic
    • pudding
      Carrageen lends a delicate flavor or scent of the sea to this fresh, light citrus pudding. Its “set” tends to be more fragile and delicate than that of commercial gelatines,...

      IrishDessertLady

      November 28, 2017
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      About Carrageenan

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      Carrageen “moss” (actually a seaweed) is one of Ireland’s more unusual natural resources. There are any number of ways to spell its common name: carrageen, carrageenan, carragheen and carragheenan, take...

      IrishDessertLady

      November 28, 2017
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      Apple Amber

      Cooking Time: 1 hr 15 mins
      • fruit
      • pastry
      • pie
        Apple Amber is one of those recipes that plainly involves the cook strolling out to the farmyard tree on a whim, pulling a few green cooking apples off it, and...

        IrishDessertLady

        November 27, 2017
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        Dean Swift’s Burnt Oranges

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        • fruit
        • historic
          Jonathan Swift once wrote a slogan for a lady orange-seller to shout in the street as advertising — a “cry”, they called it then. It went like this: Come buy...

          IrishDessertLady

          November 27, 2017
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          Chocolate Potato Cake with “Irish Potato Candy” Frosting

          • cake
          • chocolate
          • potatoes
            In Maura Laverty’s tremendous 1960’s collection of traditional Irish recipes, Full and Plenty, this recipe comes with only one word of description: Rich. Our recipe is adapted from Laverty’s, which...

            IrishDessertLady

            November 26, 2017
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