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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...

IrishDessertLady

January 17, 2018
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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 be more fragile and delicate than that of commercial gelatines,...

    IrishDessertLady

    November 28, 2017
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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...

      IrishDessertLady

      November 27, 2017
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      Dean Swift’s Burnt Oranges

      • alcohol
      • fruit
      • 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...

        IrishDessertLady

        November 27, 2017
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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 need the cracked whole oat grain or groat, sometimes called...

          IrishDessertLady

          November 26, 2017
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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 hand, and didn’t have recourse to glossy supermarkets full of...

            IrishDessertLady

            November 26, 2017
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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 for those times when a home chef wants a quick...

              IrishDessertLady

              June 18, 2017
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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 Ireland for hundreds of years. Possibly the best-known of these...

              IrishDessertLady

              June 15, 2017
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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,...

              IrishDessertLady

              June 13, 2017
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              It’s the berries

              • cake
              • cream
              • fruit
              • seasonal: summer
              • Uncategorized
              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...

              IrishDessertLady

              June 12, 2017
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              Porter Cake

              • alcohol
              • cake
              • fruit
              • Guinness
              • historic
              • Spices
                Somewhere along the line in the 1800’s, it occurred to somebody in Ireland that the dark beer called porter would make a good addition to the robust dark flavor of...

                IrishDessertLady

                June 6, 2017
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                Cranachan

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

                IrishDessertLady

                June 2, 2017
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                Fad food of the 1600s: the Orange

                • fruit
                • historic
                We take them for granted now, year round. But once upon a time, in England and Ireland, oranges were a hot new snack that it was cool to eat… and...

                IrishDessertLady

                May 26, 2017
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                Apple Upside Down Cake

                Cooking Time: 1 h 25 m
                • cake
                • fruit
                • tea time
                Great for any time you’ve got lots of apples. Also great for making the best of the few you have.

                IrishDessertLady

                May 26, 2017
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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 in this recipe makes it easy, since oranges are great...

                IrishDessertLady

                May 22, 2017
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                Apples and barley: made for each other

                • fruit
                • Irish ingredients
                • nonalcoholic
                • pudding
                Some of the best Irish dishes are the simplest ones, based on solid, good quality ingredients, not treated in any fancy way but simply with a respect for their basic...

                IrishDessertLady

                May 21, 2017
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                In The Shade Of The Old Apple Tree

                • cake
                • 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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