HALLOWEEN IS approaching, and with that comes lots of delicious treats, including the traditional fruit cake, or barmbrack as it’s more widely known in Ireland. The word originates from the ...

When barmbrack was baked for Halloween, the tradition was to add to the cake mixture a pea, a stick, a piece of cloth, a coin and a ring. Each item had a special significance for the person who ...

Those attending the evening will get a taste of Irish Soda Bread, Barm Brack and Irish Apple Cake. Nancy was kind enough to share her recipes just in case we want to make them for the St.

The traditional bread served on the night was the Halloween Barmbrack, meaning speckled cake, which is a sweet fruit bread. The word "Barm" comes from an old English word, "beorma," meaning ...

“I’ll be doing a tasting and people will taste the barmbrack and tell me, my grandmother used to make a brack just like that. “There’s a huge sense of nostalgia around traditional cakes ...

3 Shape the dough into a round and place in the prepared cake tin. Cover with a clean damp tea towel and leave to rise for 1 hour. 4 Preheat the oven to 180°C fan. 5 Bake the barmbrack in the ...

another big Halloween tradition in Ireland is eating barmbrack, a sweet, cake-like bread made with pieces of dried fruit that have been soaked overnight in hot tea (and sometimes whiskey).

Barm Brack is traditionally a yeast bread ... Mix well, then spoon into a well greased loaf or cake tin. Bake for 1 and a 1/2 - 2 hours at 150C/300F/Gas 2. Brush top with honey glaze and cool ...

Getting into a tangle about the word brack to mean ‘cake’, McWatters rejected Paterson ... Iomaire from TU Dublin on the origins of the barm brack Emboldened by the support of Irwin, Girnie ...