Irish Curd Cheeses and Cheesecakes
It would be hard to find a country where people were more in love with dairy products in general than Ireland. Historically this would have had a lot to do...
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Apple And Potato “Cake”
This dish probably started being baked by Irish firesides in its present form about three hundred years ago. It’s perfect for those times when a home chef wants a quick...
Sweet Caraway Luncheon Loaf
Tea cakes and quick breads featuring caraway (or caraways, as they sometimes call the seasoning here) have been popular in Ireland for hundreds of years. Possibly the best-known of these...
Wicklow Strawberry Shortcake
The centuries-old Irish passion for strawberries in season has turned this into one of the country’s favorite desserts. The shortcake is the real deal — not some nondescript sponge cake,...
Baileys Carrageen Pudding
It’s easy to forget that Baileys has only been around for fifty years or so… while carrageen has been part of Irish life for a lot longer. Here the two...
It’s the berries
Berries of many kinds have been on the Irish dessert menu for centuries, if not millennia. Blackberries, along with raspberries, fraughans and wild strawberries, were here from the time when...
Everyday Gingerbread with Orange-Ginger Icing
Gingerbread would have been a perennial adornment of the tea trolley over the last century or so when the Irish housewife was doing the baking. It didn’t call for exotic...
The Art of the Irish Tea Trolley
There was a time in Ireland not so long ago when the arrival of a guest meant the imminent production of the Tea Trolley. Besides the teapot and cups, the...
Porter Cake
Somewhere along the line in the 1800’s, it occurred to somebody in Ireland that the dark beer called porter would make a good addition to the robust dark flavor of...
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Porter was (and is) a style of dark beer which began to be brewed in England and Ireland in the mid-1700’s. It seems to have been an improvement on the...