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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 my fine oranges, sauce for your veal, and charming, when squeezed in a pot of brown ale: Well roasted, with...

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    November 27, 2017
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    Chocolate Potato Cake with “Irish Potato Candy” Frosting

    • cake
    • chocolate
    • potatoes
      In Maura Laverty’s tremendous 1960’s collection of traditional Irish recipes, Full and Plenty, this recipe comes with only one word of description: Rich. Our recipe is adapted from Laverty’s, which dates back to the 1800s — when chocolate started becoming a commonplace in Irish cooking and baking. See our background...

      IrishDessertLady

      November 26, 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 pinhead oats, cracked oats or porage oats. Health food stores often carry them if your local grocery doesn’t. Making this...

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        November 26, 2017
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        GIF Irish Coffee Cake: applying the coffee / whiskey syrup

        Cooking Time: 20 min
        • cake
        • coffee
        • whiskey
          Distributing the syrup evenly to the layers…. Spoon it on slowly and spread it around, as in the image. This will need to be done at least two or three times to soak each layer through adequately. Wait five minutes at least between each application to give the syrup a...

          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 ingredients that were in season somewhere else but not at home. When their harvesting season was over, apples were most...

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            November 26, 2017
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            Irish Coffee Cake

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            • coffee
            • whiskey
              The reputation of the drink chef Joe Sheridan invented one cold and rainy evening in 1943 at the old seaplane base at Foynes, County Clare began to spread far and wide during the 1950’s. It’s around then, and into the Sixties and Seventies, that recipes for cakes based on Irish...

              IrishDessertLady

              November 26, 2017
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              Hot Whiskey Cake

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              • whiskey
                In Ireland, when the cold weather sets in — and it’s usually wet as well — a lot of people, when they turn up at their local pub, really want something hot to take the chill off them. One of the great classic Irish drinks for this purpose is the...

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                November 26, 2017
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                Joe Sheridan’s Original Irish Coffee

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                  Irish coffee was invented in 1943 by Joe Sheridan, the chef at the old flying-boat base at Foynes, County Clare, near the present site of Shannon Airport. Sheridan invented this drink as something warming and welcoming to give the tired passengers when they got off the warm plane into what...

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                  November 25, 2017
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