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The Tyrol: Fanzieutes da meiles (Apple fritters)

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      Title: Fanzieutes da meiles / Apple fritters
 Categories: Val gardena, Vegetarian, Fruits, Tyrolean
      Yield: 4 servings
 
      4    Good eating apples
    125 g  Sifted flour
    1/8 l  Milk
      2    Eggs
      1 pn Salt
           Sugar to garnish
 
  Peel the apples, core them, and slice into rounds about a finger
  thick.
  
  Mix the flour, eggs and other ingredients together into a batter,
  coat the apple slices in the batter and deep-fry them.  Remove,
  drain, and sprinkle with sugar.

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Ireland: Chocolate Potato Cake

Potato is famous for making breads and cakes tender (and for improving their keeping qualities, too). This recipe adds potato to an excellent basic chocolate cake.

This recipe also uses grated chocolate rather than cocoa... so if you're into designer chocolates and you want to exploit the flavor of one of them in a cake, give this a try.

The ingredients:

Ireland: Yellowman (Crunchy Brown Sugar and Golden Syrup Toffee): March 14, 2008

The words "Ireland" and "candy" probably don't automatically go together in most people's minds when considering traditional Irish food. In the last few decades, of course, renowned Irish candy-makers have sprung up -- specifically chocolatiers like Lír and Lily O'Brien's. But much older than anything these folks produce is a traditional Irish sweet that hails from the northern counties, and is famous enough to have been enshrined in song.

Yellowman is associated with the great annual harvest-time cattle fair at Ballycastle, County Antrim. ("Did you treat your Mary Ann / To some dulse and yellowman / at the old Lammas Fair / at Ballycastle, O?" asks the old song.) It's a toffee based on golden syrup and brown sugar. Vinegar sharpens the taste, and the toffee acquires a unique bubbly, light, crunchy consistency due to the reaction of the vinegar with the baking soda that's added to the mixture when it's hot enough. Yellowman was sold from numerous competing stalls at the Ballycastle fair, the various entrepreneurs making all kinds of claims for their own product. One stallkeeper claimed that his family's recipe for yellowman would cure all known diseases. (Pity it wasn't true.)

Yellowman is fairly quick and easy to make if you want to give it a try. It's a pleasant candy just eaten on its own: and some of the new generation of Irish chefs have started putting it in other desserts, such as ice cream.

Click on "read more" for the recipe.

Ireland: Bread and Butter Pudding with Irish Whiskey (March 9, 2008)

The Irish climate is the kind in which you need comfort food every now and then, and this dessert is one of the best sorts.

Bread and butter pudding has a long association with childhood and the nursery in these islands. A century or so ago, bread and milk was a common suppertime or bedtime dish for children. Eventually someone got the idea of making it a little more special by baking it: and probably someone else later came up with the concept that such a very simple dish might be made more interesting by adding dried fruit, or fruit preparations like jam or marmalade. After that, especially where Irish cooks were concerned, when they started thinking about tinkering with this old favorite from their past, it was probably only a matter of time before the whiskey arrived.

Just a note: probably it's not a good idea to make this with too lightly flavored a whiskey. EuroCuisineGuy (whose specialty is this kind of assessment) recommends Jameson's, Paddy's or Black Bush as whiskeys that would be able to stand up to the other ingredients and the baking process without being too aggressive. Lighter-flavored ones like Powers' or plain Bushmills are more likely to get lost in the shuffle.

Click on "read more" for the recipe.

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