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Chocolate Orange Guinness Cake

Cooking Time: 2 h 40 m
  • alcohol
  • cake
  • chocolate
  • citrus
  • fruit
  • Guinness
  • Irish ingredients
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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May 22, 2017
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In The Shade Of The Old Apple Tree

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  • featured
  • fruit
  • seasonal: summer
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...

IrishDessertLady

May 21, 2017
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The Difference Between Meringue and Meringue

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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...

IrishDessertLady

May 21, 2017
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Apples and potatoes

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  • potatoes
  • stovetop
There has to be something about apples and potatoes together. (Visited 2 times, 1 visits today)

IrishDessertLady

May 21, 2017
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Bread and Butter Pudding with Rich Whiskey Sauce

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  • cream
  • 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 so ago, bread and milk...

IrishDessertLady

January 17, 2018
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Not so nutty: Fruitcakes in Ireland

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  • 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...
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Rich Guinness Cake

Cooking Time: 3 hours
  • alcohol
  • cake
  • Guinness
This recipe is adapted from one in Clare Connery’s In an Irish Country Kitchen, and is light (as Irish fruitcakes...
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Caraway or caraways? Irish herbs and spices

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  • Irish ingredients
  • Spices
For a long time Ireland’s unique circumstances as a country at the far edge of European experience meant that its...
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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...
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    Orange and Lemon Carrageen Pudding

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    • Irish ingredients
    • nonalcoholic
    • pudding
      Carrageen lends a delicate flavor or scent of the sea to this fresh, light citrus pudding. Its “set” tends to...
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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...
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      Apple Amber

      Cooking Time: 1 hr 15 mins
      • fruit
      • pastry
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        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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        November 27, 2017
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        Dean Swift’s Burnt Oranges

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        • 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 went like this: Come buy...

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          November 27, 2017
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          Chocolate Potato Cake with “Irish Potato Candy” Frosting

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          • chocolate
          • potatoes
            In Maura Laverty’s tremendous 1960’s collection of traditional Irish recipes, Full and Plenty, this recipe comes with only one word...
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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...
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              GIF Irish Coffee Cake: applying the coffee / whiskey syrup

              Cooking Time: 20 min
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              • coffee
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                Distributing the syrup evenly to the layers…. Spoon it on slowly and spread it around, as in the image. This...
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