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Bread and Butter Pudding with Rich Whiskey Sauce

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 was a common suppertime or bedtime dish for children. Eventually someone got the idea of making it a little more...

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January 17, 2018

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Not so nutty: Fruitcakes in Ireland

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 middle of the last century that pretty much everybody in the country had an oven. Before that, cooks were limited...

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January 10, 2018

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Rich Guinness Cake

Cooking Time: 3 hours

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 taste of the stout comes comes through nicely without drowning everything else out. Guinness will of course work beautifully in...

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January 8, 2018

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Caraway or caraways? Irish herbs and 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 significantly influenced by those of its nearest neighbor and sometimes chief trading partner, Britain. Spices and herbs available here were...

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January 8, 2018

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Baileys Marbled Cheesecake

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 this marbled version, the marbling is where the Baileys is. To reinforce the Baileys flavor, both coffee and cocoa (which...

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November 28, 2017

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Orange and Lemon Carrageen 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, that being one reason that cooks who know about it seek it outimpotenzastop.it. If you’re planning to make this as...

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November 28, 2017

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About Carrageenan

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 your pick. They’re all derived from the Irish word carraigín, which means “moss of the rocks” (though some think that...

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November 28, 2017

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Apple Amber

Cooking Time: 1 hr 15 mins

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 taking them back inside to quickly turn them into something unusually nice to end the meal. But the fact that...

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November 27, 2017

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Baileys	cake
Chilled & frozen	chocolate
citrus	coffee
cream	cupcake
Everyday baking	featured
fruit	Guinness
historic	Irish ingredients
nonalcoholic	pastry
pie	potatoes
pudding	seasonal: summer
seasonal: winter	Spices
tea time	Uncategorized
whiskey