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About our Irish Coffee recipes

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  • coffee
  • cream
  • historic
  • Irish ingredients
  • whiskey
There are lots of arguments and theories about this famous Irish hot drink, but at this point the historical evidence...
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Irish Coffee Cupcakes

  • alcohol
  • cupcake
  • whiskey
    This recipe is a lot like the one for our Irish Coffee Cake, in which layers of a coffee/chocolate sponge...
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    Carrigaline Whiskey and Ginger Pie

    • alcohol
    • pastry
    • pie
    • potatoes
    • whiskey
      Though Ireland has a fair number of purists who’d never dream of putting anything but water in whiskey, there are different views on the subject, and alternative additives. One very...
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      Carrageen Moss Blancmange

      Cooking Time: 24 hours 30 mins
      • citrus
      • historic
      • Irish ingredients
      • nonalcoholic
      • pudding
      This delicate and subtle dessert would once have been thought of as the kind of treat best suited to invalids and people recovering from stomach troubles. But the same lightness...
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      Irish Curd Cheeses and Cheesecakes

      • cake
      • cream
      • historic
      It would be hard to find a country where people were more in love with dairy products in general than...
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      Apple And Potato “Cake”

      • Everyday baking
      • fruit
      • pie
      • potatoes
      • tea time
        This dish probably started being baked by Irish firesides in its present form about three hundred years ago. It’s perfect...
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        Sweet Caraway Luncheon Loaf

        • cake
        • Everyday baking
        • fruit
        • Spices
        • tea time
        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...
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        Wicklow Strawberry Shortcake

        Cooking Time: 1 hr 45 mins mins
        • cake
        • cream
        • fruit
        • seasonal: summer
        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,...
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        Baileys Carrageen Pudding

        • Baileys
        • Irish ingredients
        • pudding
        It’s easy to forget that Baileys has only been around for fifty years or so… while carrageen has been part...
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        It’s the berries

        • cake
        • cream
        • fruit
        • seasonal: summer
        • Uncategorized
        Berries of many kinds have been on the Irish dessert menu for centuries, if not millennia. Blackberries, along with raspberries,...
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        Everyday Gingerbread with Orange-Ginger Icing

        Cooking Time: 1 hour 20 mins
        • cake
        • nonalcoholic
        • tea time
          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...
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          The Art of the Irish Tea Trolley

          • Background
          • cake
          • Everyday baking
          • tea time
          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...
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          Porter Cake

          • alcohol
          • cake
          • fruit
          • Guinness
          • historic
          • Spices
            Somewhere along the line in the 1800’s, it occurred to somebody in Ireland that the dark beer called porter would...
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            Nothing to do with your luggage

            • alcohol
            • historic
            Porter was (and is) a style of dark beer which began to be brewed in England and Ireland in the...
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            Creamy Baileys Mousse Pie

            • alcohol
            • Baileys
            • pie
            • whiskey
            When you go looking for Baileys pies (or pudding pies, or mousse pies) on the Web, you’ll find lots of them, but from the Irish point of view there’s a...
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            Cranachan

            Cooking Time: 30 mins
            • alcohol
            • Chilled & frozen
            • cream
            • fruit
            • historic
            • whiskey
            Almost all Celtic countries have a dessert that’s a variation on this theme: cream, oatmeal, honey, fruit, sometimes nuts, and the local firewater — in this case, Irish whiskey. Try...
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