Bread and Butter Pudding with Rich Whiskey Sauce
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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Baileys Marbled Cheesecake
The “base” recipe for this rich and luscious cheesecake is derived from the famous cheesecake native to the venerable New York restaurant Lindy’s. (More about that cheesecake’s history here.) In...
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...
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 suggests most strongly that Irish coffee was invented in 1943...
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...
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 is the real deal — not some nondescript sponge cake,...
It’s the berries
Berries of many kinds have been on the Irish dessert menu for centuries, if not millennia. Blackberries, along with raspberries, fraughans and wild strawberries, were here from the time when...
Cranachan
Almost all Celtic countries have a dessert that’s a variation on this theme: cream, oatmeal, honey, fruit, sometimes nuts, and the local firewater — in this case, Irish whiskey. Try...