Recipes for St. Patrick's Day
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IRISH WHISKEY CAKE
Ingredients :
8 ounces Raisins
Grated rind of 1 lemon
5 ounces Whiskey
6 ounces Softened butter
3 Eggs
6 ounces Soft brown sugar
6 ounces Plain flour
1 pinch Salt
1 pinch Ground cloves
1 teaspoon Baking powder
Juice of 1 lemon
8 ounces Confectioners' sugar
Warm water as needed
Candied lemon slices, optional
Preparation :
Put the raisins and grated lemon rind into a bowl with the whiskey, and leave overnight to soak. Grease a 7-inch cake pan, and line the bottom with parchment; preheat oven to 350F. Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Separate the eggs and sift the flour, salt, cloves and baking powder into a bowl. Beat the yolks into the butter and sugar one by one, including a spoonful of flour and beating well after each addition. Gradually add the whiskey and raisin mixture, alternating with the remaining flour. Do not overbeat at this stage.
Finally, whisk the egg whites until stiff and fold them into the mixture with a metal spoon. Turn into the prepared pan and bake in the preheated oven for about 1 1/2 hours, or until well risen and springy to the touch ~- or test with a skewer: when it comes out clean, the cake's ready.
Turn out and cool on a wire rack.
Meanwhile, make the icing by mixing the lemon juice with the sifted confectioners' sugar and just enough water to make a pouring consistency.
Put a dinner plate under the cake rack to catch the drips, and pour the icing over the cake a tablespoonful at a time, letting it dribble naturally down the sides. Don't worry if a lot of it ends up on the plate underneath -- just scoop it up and put it on top again. When the icing has set, it can be decorated with candied lemon slices if you like.
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IRISH STEW
Ingredients :
1 lb lamb
3 lbs potatoes
1/2 lb carrots
1/2 lb parsnips
2 or 3 onions
Oil for sautéing.
1 Tbsp brown sugar
2 cups liquid
(stock from the bones if you have time to make it: or a combination of
meat stock, wine and water, whatever flavorful liquid you have to hand).
Salt, pepper, 5 bay leaves, 1 tsp basil
Preparation :
Cut meat into 1-inch cubes.
Brown the onions and the meat with a bit of oil. Slice up the carrots and parsnips . Sauté them for a few minutes and then add just a little bit of brown sugar to glaze them. Meanwhile, be peeling and slicing the potatoes. Slice small potatoes in four, big ones in 6 or 8 pieces. Stick them in a casserole dish with the meat and onions, and add the liquid. If desired, add some barley, but only a small amount (a handful), as it swells up a lot, and add the extra liquid.
Add salt and pepper, a few bay leaves, some basil and other herbs if you want.
Cover the dish and bake the potatoes and meat in a 350 oven for about 40 minutes, then add the carrots and parsnips. (If you just want to leave it cooking, you can add everything at the same time).
It needs to cook for about 1 or 1.5 hours, it's ready when the potatoes are tender.
Mash some of the potatoes in the liquid when you're eating it, very delicious!
Serve hot this vegetable rich meat dish prepared in a traditional Irish way.
Quite a treat for a mild March evening on St Patrick's Day.
Irish Sayings
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Cead Mile Failte
One hundred thousand welcomes
Erin Go Braugh
Ireland Forever
May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow,
And may trouble avoid you wherever you go.
May the road rise up to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back,
May the sun shine down upon your face,
And the rain fall soft upon your fields,
Until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.
-Irish Blessing
Up the airy mountain
Down the rushy glen,
We daren't go a-hunting
For fear o' little men
-William Allingham
May the Irish hills caress you.
May her lakes and rivers bless you.
May the luck of the Irish enfold you.
May the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you.
-Irish Saying
'Tis better to buy a small bouquet
And give to your friend this very day,
Than a bushel of roses white and red
To lay on his coffin after he's dead.
-Irish Saying
Green are the hills of Ireland,
And green they will always stay.
Warm are the blessings wished for you,
And they'll always stay that way.
-Irish Blessing
May St. Patrick guard you wherever
you go and guide you in
whatever you do--and may his loving
protection be a blessing to you always.
-Irish Blessing
May the saddest day of your future be no worse
than the happiest day of your past
-Irish Saying
"May your blessings outnumber
the shamrocks that grow
And may trouble avoid you
wherever you go."
-Irish Blessing
May there always be work for your hands to do,
May your purse always hold a coin or two.
May the sun always shine warm on your windowpane,
May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain.
May the hand of a friend always be near you,
and may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
-Irish Blessing
May your glass be ever full.
May the roof over your head be always strong.
And may you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead.
-Irish Toast
About St. Patrick's Day
by Holly Ruggiero (www.web-holidays.com)
St. Patrick's Day is celebrated everywhere on March 17th by both Irish and non-Irish people. Parades, the wearing o' the green and an Irish feast are all customary on this day. A typical American favorite "Irish" dinner is corned beef & cabbage. An Irishman will probably tell you that he's never heard of this boiled beef with cabbage, but he'll gladly eat it with you nevertheless. Corned beef and cabbage was actually created by immigrants in New England, it is a variation of the famous New England Boiled Dinner. Another favorite meal is one that is all green. Yes, food that is naturally green and food that is tinted green with food coloring.
Who was Saint Patrick?
Saint Patrick was a Christian missionary and the Apostle of Ireland. He was born around 385 AD near Dumbarton in Scotland, the son of a Roman nobleman. His real name is believed to have been Maewyn Succat; his baptismal name is Patricius. He was just 16 when his village was attacked. He was captured and sold into slavery in Ireland where he worked as a shepherd. After six years of being beaten and treated poorly, he escaped to Gaul (present day France). He later returned to Ireland as a missionary where he is credited for converting the population to Catholicism. St. Patrick is associated with many myths and legends. The most famous is the legend in which he drove all of the snakes out of Ireland and into the sea. In fact, there are no snakes in Ireland today. Some people believe that the snakes in this story actually refer to the pagans in Ireland. St. Patrick is the patron saint of engineers, excluded people, fear of snakes, snake bites, against snakes, Ireland, and Nigeria.
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