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Boxty
1/2 pound mashed potatoes
1/2 pound grated raw potatoes
1/2 pound flour
1 tbs baking powder
2 eggs
1/4 milk cup
salt
Mix all the ingredients, adding grated raw potatoes at the last moment. Drop the result with a spoon in a saucepan. Cook until turning golden brown, turning once (about 5 minutes per side). Fill with meat or vegetables.
Irish Stew
2 pounds boned lamb
8 onions
2 pounds potatoes
1 pint-1 pint 1/2 water
thyme
parsley
salt
pepper
(optional):
5 carrots
1 pound cabbage
Cut the meat into chunks. Peal and slice the vegetables. Layer potatoes on the bottom of the pot, add onions and (if used) carrots and cabbage, herbs and meat. Add salt and pepper. Continue layering the ingredients until the pot is full. Pour water and cover with an aluminium foil (if cooked in oven). Put the pot in the oven (230F) or boil slowly for two hours.
Irish Soda Bread
3 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
8-10 fluid ounces sour milk, or buttermilk
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 450 F.
Sift the dry ingredients together several times in a big bowl.
Make a well in the center.
Pour about three-quarters of the buttermilk or sour milk and begin to stir.
Add more liquid sparingly if you need it- dough should be raggy, soft and dryish. Blend ingredients. Then knead dough, only for around half a minute.
Shape the bread into a circular flat piece and put on a baking sheet (lightly dusted with flour.
With a sharp knife cut a cross across the top.
Place in oven. For the first 10 minutes at 450 F, then decrease to 400 F.
Brown Irish Soda Bread
2 cups brown flour
2 cups white flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup milk
Mix dry ingredients together. Add milk to form a loose dough. Place dough on floured board and knead until smooth. Form into a round about 2 inches high and make a large X with a knife on top of it. Bake on greased baking sheet at 375 degrees for 45 minutes.
Colcannon
7-8 potatoes
1 cabbage
1 cup milk
A lot of butter
salt
pepper
Wash (without pealing) the potatoes and boil them in salt water. Chop the cabbage and boil it till tender. Peal the potatoes and mash them, adding milk. Add cabbage. Server in a hot plate and pour melted butter on top.
Irish Tea Cake
4 2/3 c all-purpose flour
2 1/2 c dried currants
2 1/2 t baking powder
1 1/2 c softened, butter
2 1/2 c sugar
3 T lemon juice
1 1/2 t vanilla
4 eggs
1 1/4 c milk
Glaze:
1 c sifted, confectioner' s sugar
1 T lemon juice, mixed with 2 t water
Pre-heat oven to 325 degrees. Grease two loaf pans.
Place the 2/3 c of flour in a bowl and mix in currants; set aside.
Sift together remaining flour and baking powder.
Beat together butter, sugar, lemon juice and vanilla; beat in
eggs one at a time.
Add sifted ingredients alternately with milk in 3 or 4 additions.
Mix only to just combine. Fold in currants alongwith the coating
flour. Spoon batter in prepared pans and smooth tops.
Bake for 1 hour and 20 - 25 minutes or until loaves are lightly
browned, springy to the touch and begin to pull away from sides
of
pan.
Cool for 15 minutes and carefully turn out loaves from pans by
loosening cakes around the edges with a spatula.
Cool for one hour.
Prepare glaze by whisking ingredients together until smooth.
Place wax paper under cakes and drizzle glaze over the tops of
each cake. Before glaze hardens, smooth glaze over cake tops with
spatula and allow to harden before cutting cakes.
*these cakes freeze beautifully*
Irish Oatmeal Cookies
1 cup (2 sticks) butter.
1 1/2 cups superfine sugar.
1 egg.
1 teaspoon vanilla.
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour.
1 teaspoon baking soda.
1 teaspoon baking powder.
1 1/4 cups McCann’s Quick Cooking Irish Oatmeal.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
In the large bowl of an electric mixer, cream the butter and sugar.
Add the egg and vanilla.
Stir in the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and oatmeal.
Drop spoonfuls of the dough onto the prepared sheet, leaving space between.
Bake 7 to 8 minutes, or until cookies are golden brown. Remove from baking sheet and cool. Makes 24 cookies.
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