My parents will go to mass this Sunday to thank God for making them Irish, and then we’ll gather for the annual dinner: Brisket boiled with cabbage, white potato (“puh-TAY-tuh”) and carrots. And soda bread.
But what else? I was thinking of getting some booze and making an Irish coffee ice cream cake. In years past I’d made rabbit stew, but that never went over too well (the whole “eating rodent” thing, I guess).
The great white unleavened lump with millions of bubbles in it. “Brown bread” as I know it is mostly rye flour, made with currants & molasses and is steamed, not baked.
My sister likes Smithwick’s, and since she’s cooking and I’m invited, Smithwick’s it is. I’d like to find a bottle of Knappogue Castle Irish Whiskey to go along with it.
Tomorrow morning, after church, I’m doing the refreshments. I’ll do some of my regular cookies, plus some iced sugar cookies shaped like 4-leaf clovers.
I wanted to do something new, Irish soda bread, but most recipes say it should be served warm out of the oven, which won’t be possible.
I have a very good scone recipe though, do you think that would be an acceptable substitute for soda bread?
As usual my mother is making corned-beef & cabbage (which I hate), and I’m stuck attending because I’ll be spending the day help move an elderly aunt in with them. The woman has 3 Irish cookbooks (one of which I gave her & has pictures w/every recipe) and she still insists on making something that’s not even really Irish. :smack: Then again neither are we; as near as another (dead) great aunt can tell we’re actually Scotch-Irish. And my mother’s family came over from Germany. And the one real Irishman I knew (exchange student from Dublin) hated St. Patrick’s Day & everything realted to it.
I made colcannon! With chopped kale and green onions. I have a ton of it and it should last me a week. Don’t care for corned beef, I may buy some kind of sausage to go with it.