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Gurriers

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Everybody in Dublin knows what “gurriers” means. It’s an old word for street kids — with the implication that they’re the kind of kids who’re usually getting into mischief: messers, troublemakers, kids living on their wits. There’s a lot of discussion about where the word comes from, but — despite...

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May 29, 2017
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Gur Cake

Cooking Time: 1 h 20 min
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    Invented by Dublin bakers at the turn of the 20th century, gur cake was a way to use up unsold day-old bread or cake and still make some money from it. It quickly became available all over Ireland, and can still be found here and there under other names: “Chester...

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    May 29, 2017
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    Fad food of the 1600s: the Orange

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    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 be seen eating. Though oranges had been growing in Spain since around the 1300’s — brought there from North Africa...

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    May 26, 2017
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    Apple Upside Down Cake

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

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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 for bringing ingredient flavors together in either sweet or savory dishes impotenzastop.it. In this cake the orange juice and zest...

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

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    • nonalcoholic
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    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 flavors and the way the ingredients interact with other foods. This recipe is one of those, harking back to a...

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    May 21, 2017
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    Potato meets chocolate

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    • potatoes
    Potatoes and chocolate may come from the same place, but getting them into the same dish is usually a slightly chancy operation… especially on Irish turf. Chocolate arrived in Ireland in the last decades of the 1600’s and quickly became part of trendy life in Dublin, then the United Kingdom’s...

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

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    • 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 apples, their trees often surviving half-forgotten in old suburban gardens or weedy vacant lots. We’re lucky enough to have one...

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    May 21, 2017
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