Apple Barley 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
The reputation of the drink chef Joe Sheridan invented one cold and rainy evening in 1943 at the old seaplane...
Hot Whiskey Cake
In Ireland, when the cold weather sets in — and it’s usually wet as well — a lot of people,...
Joe Sheridan’s Original Irish Coffee
Irish coffee was invented in 1943 by Joe Sheridan, the chef at the old flying-boat base at Foynes, County Clare,...
About our Irish Coffee recipes
There are lots of arguments and theories about this famous Irish hot drink, but at this point the historical evidence...
Irish Coffee Cupcakes
This recipe is a lot like the one for our Irish Coffee Cake, in which layers of a coffee/chocolate sponge...
Carrigaline Whiskey and Ginger Pie
Though Ireland has a fair number of purists who’d never dream of putting anything but water in whiskey, there are...
Carrageen Moss Blancmange
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...
Irish Curd Cheeses and Cheesecakes
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...
Apple And Potato “Cake”
This dish probably started being baked by Irish firesides in its present form about three hundred years ago. It’s perfect...
Sweet Caraway Luncheon Loaf
Tea cakes and quick breads featuring caraway (or caraways, as they sometimes call the seasoning here) have been popular in...
Wicklow Strawberry Shortcake
The centuries-old Irish passion for strawberries in season has turned this into one of the country’s favorite desserts. The shortcake...