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Bread and Butter Pudding with Rich Whiskey Sauce

  • alcohol
  • cream
  • fruit
  • whiskey
The climate in Ireland makes you want comfort food every now and then, and this dessert is one of the...
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Not so nutty: Fruitcakes in Ireland

  • Background
  • 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...
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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...
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Caraway or caraways? Irish herbs and spices

  • Background
  • 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...
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Baileys Marbled Cheesecake

  • alcohol
  • 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...
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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...
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      About Carrageenan

      • Background
      • Irish ingredients
      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...
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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...
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        Dean Swift’s Burnt Oranges

        • alcohol
        • fruit
        • historic
          Jonathan Swift once wrote a slogan for a lady orange-seller to shout in the street as advertising — a “cry”,...
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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...
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            Donegal Oatmeal Cream

            Cooking Time: 36 hours 30 minutes
            • fruit
            • Irish ingredients
            • nonalcoholic
              Here’s a dessert based on that hardiest of homegrown Irish grains, the oat. Don’t try this with rolled oats! You need the cracked whole oat grain or groat, sometimes called...
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              GIF Irish Coffee Cake: applying the coffee / whiskey syrup

              Cooking Time: 20 min
              • cake
              • coffee
              • whiskey
                Distributing the syrup evenly to the layers…. Spoon it on slowly and spread it around, as in the image. This will need to be done at least two or three...
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                Apple Barley Pudding

                Cooking Time: 60 mins
                • Chilled & frozen
                • cream
                • fruit
                • nonalcoholic
                • pudding
                  This recipe harks back to a time when cooks were intent on making the best of what they had on...
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                  Irish Coffee Cake

                  • alcohol
                  • cake
                  • coffee
                  • whiskey
                    The reputation of the drink chef Joe Sheridan invented one cold and rainy evening in 1943 at the old seaplane...
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                    Hot Whiskey Cake

                    • alcohol
                    • cake
                    • whiskey
                      In Ireland, when the cold weather sets in — and it’s usually wet as well — a lot of people, when they turn up at their local pub, really want...
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                      Joe Sheridan’s Original Irish Coffee

                      • alcohol
                      • historic
                      • Irish ingredients
                      • whiskey
                        Irish coffee was invented in 1943 by Joe Sheridan, the chef at the old flying-boat base at Foynes, County Clare, near the present site of Shannon Airport. Sheridan invented this...
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