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Caraway or caraways? Irish herbs and spices

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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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January 8, 2018
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Dean Swift’s Burnt Oranges

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    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...

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    November 27, 2017
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    Joe Sheridan’s Original Irish Coffee

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      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...

      IrishDessertLady

      November 25, 2017
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      About our Irish Coffee recipes

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      There are lots of arguments and theories about this famous Irish hot drink, but at this point the historical evidence suggests most strongly that Irish coffee was invented in 1943...

      IrishDessertLady

      November 25, 2017
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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...

      IrishDessertLady

      September 9, 2017
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      Irish Curd Cheeses and Cheesecakes

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      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...

      IrishDessertLady

      July 22, 2017
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      Porter Cake

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      • cake
      • fruit
      • Guinness
      • historic
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        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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        June 6, 2017
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        Nothing to do with your luggage

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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...

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        June 6, 2017
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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...

        IrishDessertLady

        June 2, 2017
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        Gurriers

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        • historic
        • Irish ingredients
        • pastry
        Everybody in Dublin knows what “gurriers” means. It’s an old word for street kids — with the implication that they’re the kind of kids who’re usually getting into mischief: messers,...

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        May 29, 2017
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        Gur Cake

        Cooking Time: 1 h 20 min
        • cake
        • historic
        • pastry
          Invented by Dublin bakers at the turn of the 20th century, gur cake was a way to use up unsold day-old bread or cake and still make some money from...

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          May 29, 2017
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          Fad food of the 1600s: the Orange

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          We take them for granted now, year round. But once upon a time, in England and Ireland, oranges were a hot new snack that it was cool to eat… and...

          IrishDessertLady

          May 26, 2017
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