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Baileys Carrageen 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 traditions meet in a fluffy, creamy dessert that will have guests asking for more!

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June 12, 2017

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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 this island was still part of the main European continent, and they turn up in Irish food poetry as long...

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June 12, 2017

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Everyday Gingerbread with Orange-Ginger Icing

Cooking Time: 1 hour 20 mins

Gingerbread would have been a perennial adornment of the tea trolley over the last century or so when the Irish housewife was doing the baking. It didn’t call for exotic ingredients, children liked it, it was fast and easy to make, and gingerbread hot out of the oven has a...

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June 9, 2017

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The Art of the Irish Tea Trolley

There was a time in Ireland not so long ago when the arrival of a guest meant the imminent production of the Tea Trolley. Besides the teapot and cups, the trolley would also be loaded down with a basic assortment of home baking. Plain soda bread and fruit sodas (“tea...

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June 9, 2017

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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 the standard fruitcake. That may have been when porter cake was born. Porter cake usually contains, at the very least,...

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June 6, 2017

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Nothing to do with your luggage

Porter was (and is) a style of dark beer which began to be brewed in England and Ireland in the mid-1700’s. It seems to have been an improvement on the brown beers that had habitually been brewed for almost immediate consumption. Porter, in contrast, was aged in large barrels for...

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June 6, 2017

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Creamy Baileys Mousse Pie

When you go looking for Baileys pies (or pudding pies, or mousse pies) on the Web, you’ll find lots of them, but from the Irish point of view there’s a problem with a whole lot of them, because they usually contain artificial non-dairy products like Cool Whip. And the native...

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June 5, 2017

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Cranachan

Cooking Time: 30 mins

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 our version of this old traditional favorite.

IrishDessertLady

June 2, 2017

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alcohol	Background
Baileys	cake
Chilled & frozen	chocolate
citrus	coffee
cream	cupcake
Everyday baking	featured
fruit	Guinness
historic	Irish ingredients
nonalcoholic	pastry
pie	potatoes
pudding	seasonal: summer
seasonal: winter	Spices
tea time	Uncategorized
whiskey