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Baileys Marbled Cheesecake

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  • cake
  • coffee
  • cream
  • Irish ingredients
  • alcohol
  • cake
  • coffee
  • cream
  • Irish ingredients

Cranachan

  • alcohol
  • Chilled & frozen
  • cream
  • fruit
  • historic
  • whiskey
Cooking Time: 30 mins

Chocolate Orange Guinness Cake

  • alcohol
  • cake
  • chocolate
  • citrus
  • fruit
  • Guinness
  • Irish ingredients
Cooking Time: 2 h 40 m

Chocolate Potato Cake with “Irish Potato Candy” Frosting

  • cake
  • chocolate
  • potatoes
  • cake
  • chocolate
  • potatoes

Bread and Butter Pudding with Rich Whiskey Sauce

  • alcohol
  • cream
  • fruit
  • whiskey
  • alcohol
  • cream
  • fruit
  • whiskey

Apple And Potato “Cake”

  • Everyday baking
  • fruit
  • pie
  • potatoes
  • tea time
  • Everyday baking
  • fruit
  • pie
  • potatoes
  • tea time

Orange and Lemon Carrageen Pudding

  • fruit
  • Irish ingredients
  • nonalcoholic
  • pudding
  • fruit
  • Irish ingredients
  • nonalcoholic
  • pudding
  • Gluten Free

Apple Amber

  • fruit
  • pastry
  • pie
Cooking Time: 1 hr 15 mins

Apple Barley Pudding

  • Chilled & frozen
  • cream
  • fruit
  • nonalcoholic
  • pudding
Cooking Time: 60 mins
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Bread and Butter Pudding with Rich Whiskey Sauce

  • alcohol
  • 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...
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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...
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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

  • Background
  • 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...
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Baileys Marbled Cheesecake

  • alcohol
  • cake
  • 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

    • 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...
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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
      • 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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        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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          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
              • cake
              • coffee
              • whiskey
                Distributing the syrup evenly to the layers…. Spoon it on slowly and spread it around, as in the image. This...
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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...
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                  Irish Coffee Cake

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                  • cake
                  • coffee
                  • whiskey
                    The reputation of the drink chef Joe Sheridan invented one cold and rainy evening in 1943 at the old seaplane...
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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,...
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                      Joe Sheridan’s Original Irish Coffee

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                      • 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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                        About our Irish Coffee recipes

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                        • coffee
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                        • historic
                        • Irish ingredients
                        • whiskey
                        There are lots of arguments and theories about this famous Irish hot drink, but at this point the historical evidence suggests most strongly that Irish coffee was invented in 1943...
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                        Irish Coffee Cupcakes

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                        • cupcake
                        • whiskey
                          This recipe is a lot like the one for our Irish Coffee Cake, in which layers of a coffee/chocolate sponge...
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                          Carrigaline Whiskey and Ginger Pie

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                          • pastry
                          • pie
                          • potatoes
                          • whiskey
                            Though Ireland has a fair number of purists who’d never dream of putting anything but water in whiskey, there are...
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                            Carrageen Moss Blancmange

                            Cooking Time: 24 hours 30 mins
                            • citrus
                            • historic
                            • Irish ingredients
                            • nonalcoholic
                            • pudding
                            This delicate and subtle dessert would once have been thought of as the kind of treat best suited to invalids...
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                            Irish Curd Cheeses and Cheesecakes

                            • cake
                            • cream
                            • historic
                            It would be hard to find a country where people were more in love with dairy products in general than...
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                            Apple And Potato “Cake”

                            • Everyday baking
                            • fruit
                            • pie
                            • potatoes
                            • tea time
                              This dish probably started being baked by Irish firesides in its present form about three hundred years ago. It’s perfect...
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                              Sweet Caraway Luncheon Loaf

                              • cake
                              • Everyday baking
                              • fruit
                              • Spices
                              • tea time
                              Tea cakes and quick breads featuring caraway (or caraways, as they sometimes call the seasoning here) have been popular in...
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                              Wicklow Strawberry Shortcake

                              Cooking Time: 1 hr 45 mins mins
                              • cake
                              • cream
                              • fruit
                              • seasonal: summer
                              The centuries-old Irish passion for strawberries in season has turned this into one of the country’s favorite desserts. The shortcake is the real deal — not some nondescript sponge cake,...
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                              Baileys Carrageen Pudding

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                              • pudding
                              It’s easy to forget that Baileys has only been around for fifty years or so… while carrageen has been part of Irish life for a lot longer. Here the two...
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                              It’s the berries

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                              • seasonal: summer
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                              Berries of many kinds have been on the Irish dessert menu for centuries, if not millennia. Blackberries, along with raspberries,...
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                              Everyday Gingerbread with Orange-Ginger Icing

                              Cooking Time: 1 hour 20 mins
                              • cake
                              • nonalcoholic
                              • tea time
                                Gingerbread would have been a perennial adornment of the tea trolley over the last century or so when the Irish...
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                                The Art of the Irish Tea Trolley

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                                There was a time in Ireland not so long ago when the arrival of a guest meant the imminent production...
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                                Porter Cake

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                                • cake
                                • fruit
                                • Guinness
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                                  Somewhere along the line in the 1800’s, it occurred to somebody in Ireland that the dark beer called porter would...
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                                  Nothing to do with your luggage

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                                  Porter was (and is) a style of dark beer which began to be brewed in England and Ireland in the...
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