Best of Irish
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Bread lies at the heart of the Irish baking tradition, and the range of breads, scones, tarts, cakes and biscuits still baked every day in Irish homes is truly enormous. Possibly the best known is brown bread - unique to every cook - the recipe often a closely guarded secret!
These sixty tempting recipes are a selection of the best from the tradition and include soda breads, potato and griddle breads, gur cake, porter cake, barm brack and Christmas cake, buttermilk scones, pancakes, puddings and oaten biscuits. They will delight visitors and Irish people alike. Details of customs, folklore and Irish regional food traditions provide a fascinating background to the recipes and forty charming illustrations complete the mix.
Meat has been central to Irish food culture for thousands of years. These fifty inspiring recipes feature beef, lamb, pork, poultry, game, and dishes using cured, spiced and smoked meats. There are traditional dishes such as Irish stew, Michaelmas roast goose, Bacon and cabbage; local specialities like Cork crubeens and Dingle pies. Recipes from leading Irish chefs put a modern twist on traditional dishes: Roast loin of farmed boar stuffed with poitÃn-soaked prunes and black-pudding mash, Beef and oyster pies with stout, Air-dried Connemara lamb with wild Irish salad, Beef fillet baked in a turf crust, Roast haunch of venison with rowan jelly.
Details of customs, folklore and Irish regional food traditions provide a fascinating background to the recipes.
The Best of traditional Irish foods cooked with modern flair
The Irish calendar provides many days for feasting and traditional celebration: St Brigid's Day, which announces the spring; St Patrick's Day, Shrove Tuesday, Bealtaine (May), Bloomsday, Lughnasa (August), Hallowe'en, Women's Christmas (Nollaig na mBan). Then there are the newer festivals that celebrate the rich harvest of our seas and fields -- The Galway Oyster Festival, the Wexford Strawberry Festival. These sixty recipes offer a tempting selection of foods for all these occasions, as well as for christenings, weddings and wakes.
Details of customs, folklore and Irish regional food traditions provide a fascinating background to the recipes.
Choose from traditional colcannon or the brunch favourite -- boxty, surprisingly light potato bread and scones, warm potato salad, or potato dumplings. Whether you like your potatoes floury or waxed, baked, roast or mashed, you will find a recipe here to suit your taste.
Biddy White Lennon brings out the real flavour of Ireland in this new cookbook series. One of Ireland's best-known food writers, she presents recipes from around the country featuring the finest and the favourites of traditional Irish cooking.
From starters to puddings, you will find a delicious selection of recipes using the best of Irish ingredients: succulent salmon, creamy cheeses, nutty brown flour. Choose from Bantry Bay mussels, Dublin Coddle, Kerry apple cakes, traditional fruity barm brack -- the Hallowe'en favourite -- Guinness stew, Baileys cheesecake and of course the famous Irish Coffee.
The book also contains related anecdotes, around the recipes, on Irish folklore and legends. All the recipes include metric, imperial and US measurements.