Chocolate Orange Guinness Cake
Balancing the basic dark bitterness of Guinness with a dessert’s sweet ingredients is always a little tricky. But the orange...
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In The Shade Of The Old Apple Tree
The Irish countryside is full of surprises for the creative baker, especially when summer begins. Early apples are ripe on the trees: and the best of these are the heirloom...
The Difference Between Meringue and Meringue
Our Apple Amber recipe is just (when you get down to it) an apple meringue pie. Why don’t they just call it that? Possibly because on this side of the...
Bread and Butter Pudding with Rich Whiskey Sauce
Comfort food for the raw Irish weather... or your own local chill. Dark sugar, plumped dried fruit and a creamy buttery whiskey sauce turns the familiar standby into something special
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...
Rich Guinness Cake
This recipe is adapted from one in Clare Connery’s In an Irish Country Kitchen, and is light (as Irish fruitcakes...
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...
Baileys Marbled Cheesecake
The “base” recipe for this rich and luscious cheesecake is derived from the famous cheesecake native to the venerable New...
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...
About Carrageenan
Carrageen “moss” (actually a seaweed) is one of Ireland’s more unusual natural resources. There are any number of ways to...
Apple Amber
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...
Dean Swift’s Burnt Oranges
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...
Chocolate Potato Cake with “Irish Potato Candy” Frosting
In Maura Laverty’s tremendous 1960’s collection of traditional Irish recipes, Full and Plenty, this recipe comes with only one word...
Donegal Oatmeal Cream
Here’s a dessert based on that hardiest of homegrown Irish grains, the oat. Don’t try this with rolled oats! You...
GIF Irish Coffee Cake: applying the coffee / whiskey syrup
Distributing the syrup evenly to the layers…. Spoon it on slowly and spread it around, as in the image. This...