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 ...

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 ...

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. Patrick ...

“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 ...

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 ...