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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”, they called it then. It...
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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 of description: Rich. Our recipe is adapted from Laverty’s, which...
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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...
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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 hand, and didn’t have recourse to glossy supermarkets full of...
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            Irish Coffee Cake

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            • coffee
            • whiskey
              The reputation of the drink chef Joe Sheridan invented one cold and rainy evening in 1943 at the old seaplane base at Foynes, County Clare began to spread far and...
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              Hot Whiskey Cake

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              • 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...
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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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