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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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 be more fragile and delicate than that of commercial gelatines,...
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...
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 need the cracked whole oat grain or groat, sometimes called...
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...
Apple And Potato “Cake”
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...
Sweet Caraway Luncheon Loaf
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...
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...
Porter Cake
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...
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...
Fad food of the 1600s: the Orange
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...
Apple Upside Down Cake
Great for any time you’ve got lots of apples. Also great for making the best of the few you have.
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 in this recipe makes it easy, since oranges are great...
Apples and barley: made for each other
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...
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...