Real Irish Food: 150 Classic Recipes from the Old Country
By David Bowers
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About this ebook
Real Irish Food is the first comprehensive cookbook to bring classic Irish dishes to America with an eye for American kitchens and cooks, and with tips and tricks to help reproduce Irish results with American ingredients. Transform plain white fish by baking it with grated sharp cheese, mustard, and crumbs. Discover that celery takes on new life when sliced, simmered in chicken stock, and served in a lightly thickened sauce.
- Homemade Irish Sausages
- Potted Shrimp and Potted Salmon
- Finglas Irish Stew with Dumplings
- Whiskey Chicken and Roast Goose with Applesauce
- Boxty, Cally, Champ, and Colcannon
- Apple Snow, Almond Buns, and Summer Pudding
- Elderflower Lemonade, Black Velvet, and Ginger Beer
- Cherry Cake, Custard Tart, and Brandy Butter
From hearty roasts to innovative vegetable dishes, from trays of fresh-baked scones to rich, eggy cakes, and from jams bursting with tart fruit to everything you can do with a potato, there’s no food so warm and welcoming, so homey and family-oriented, so truly mouthwatering as real Irish food.
David Bowers
David Bowers is the author of Dad's Own Guide to Housekeeping and Bake Like a Man: A Real Man’s Cookbook. He lives in New York City and Dublin, Ireland.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Although I did not try any of the recipes, most are familiar to me. However, the photos are very obviously crafted just for the book, don't expect your finished product to look like this. My rating has been reduced accordingly.
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Real Irish Food - David Bowers
BREAKFAST FOODS
To Make a Savory Amblet
Take twelve yolks of new eggs, mix them very fine like a batter, some chives, parsley, a little grated nutmeg, pepper, and salt: put in your amblet pan a quarter of a pound of fresh butter melted, then put your compound in the pan over a slow fire till hardened.
—from an 18th century Irish cookbook manuscript
Breakfast in Ireland can be the best meal of the day. Staying at an Irish B&B can beguile you into spending longer at the breakfast table than you did at the dinner table, beginning with a bowl of porridge, often topped with cream and sugar, and sometimes an alluring shot of whiskey as well. Then the meal moves on to the full fry,
sometimes called a fry-up,
consisting of a fried egg, sausages, rashers, and black and white