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Bread and Butter Pudding with Rich Whiskey Sauce

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  • fruit
  • whiskey
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...
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Not so nutty: Fruitcakes in Ireland

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  • 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 to do with household equipment. It wasn’t until about the...
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Rich Guinness Cake

Cooking Time: 3 hours
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  • 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

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  • 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...
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Baileys Marbled Cheesecake

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  • coffee
  • cream
  • Irish ingredients
    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...
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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 be more fragile and delicate than that of commercial gelatines,...
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      About Carrageenan

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      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,...
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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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