Yummy Irish 'Nummins

In honor of St. Patty's Day I found some recipes I would like to share!! =]]

 

Irish Corned Beef & Cabbage

• 5 to 6 pounds  corned brisket of beef
• 5 cups water
• 1 tablespoon pickling spices
• 1 pound turnips
• 1 pound carrots
• 2 large onions
• 2 pounds small red potatoes
• 2 pounds cabbage

For Horseradish Cream:

• 1/2 cup  sour cream
• 1/4 cup jarred horseradish, drained
• 1/4 cup chopped fresh dill

1. Place brisket into a large heavy pot with water and spices. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to a simmer and cover pot. Simmer until brisket is tender, about 3 hours. Cut turnips, carrots, onions, and potatoes in chunks, then scatter vegetables in a pot around beef. Slice cabbage into 1-inch-thick wedges, then layer over beef and vegetables in pot. Cover pot and continue to simmer until vegetables are very tender, about 1 hour more.
2. Just before serving stir together sour cream, horseradish, dill, 1/2 teaspoon each of salt and pepper.

To Serve: place cabbage on a large platter and scatter vegetables over top. Slice beef and place over vegetables. Serve beef and vegetables topped with horseradish cream.

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Irish Soda Bread

• 4 cups  all-purpose flour
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 4 tablespoons cold unsalted butter
• 1 cup raisins
• 2 tablespoons caraway seed
• 1 3/4 cups well-shaken buttermilk

Preheat oven to 375 F. Butter and flour a large baking sheet, knocking off excess flour.

1. Sift together flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt into a large bowl. Cut in butter with a pastry cutter or your fingers until the butter is pea-sized lumps. Add raisins and caraway, then add buttermilk and stir just until dough is evenly moistened but still lumpy.
2. Transfer dough to a well-floured surface and gently knead with floured hands about 8 times to form a soft but slightly less sticky dough, then form into a ball. Pat dough ball into a domed 8-inch round on baking sheet. Cut a 1/2-inch-deep X on top of each loaf with a sharp knife.
3. Bake in the middle of oven until golden brown and bottom sounds hollow when tapped, 45 to 55 minutes. 
4. Transfer to rack to cool completely. 
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Chocolate Guinness Cake with Irish Cream Caramel Sauce

• 2 cups  all-purpose flour
• 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (not Dutch-process) plus additional for dusting
• 1 1 /4 teaspoons baking soda
• 3/4 teaspoon kosher salt
• 2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
• 1 1/2 cups packed dark brown sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extreact
• 1 1/3 cups room-temperature Guinness or other stout beer
• Lightly sweetened whipped cream

For Caramel Sauce:

• 1 cup  sugar
• 2 tablespoons water
• 1/3 cup Irish whisky such as Jameson or Bushmills
• 1/2 cup heavy cream
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter

Preheat oven to 350 F. with rack in the middle. Butter and flour an 8-inch square cake pan (2 inches deep).

1. Whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt.
2. Beat together butter and brown sugar with an electric mixer until pale and fluffy. Add eggs one and at time, beating well, then beat in vanilla. Add flour mixture and beer alternately in batches, beginning and ending with flour mixture and mixing until just combined.
3. Pour batter into cake pan and smooth top, then bake until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean, 45 to 55 minutes.
4. Cool in a pan on a wire rack 1 hour. Transfer cake to a cake plate.

To Make Sauce:

1. Heat sugar and water in a 10-inch heavy skillet over medium heat, and cook, swirling skillet occasionally so sugar melts evenly, until it is a dark amber. Add whiskey and carefully cook, swirling skillet occasionally so sugar melts evenly, until it is a dark amber. Add whiskey and carefully ignite with a kitchen match (use caution: whiskey will ignite in a ball of flame). When flame dies out stir in cream and bring to a boil (don't worry if the caramel seizes -- just stir until the sauce is recombined). Boil until liquid is reduced by 1/3, then remove from heat and whisk in butter. Remove from heat and keep warm, covered.

Serve cake with caramel sauce and whipped cream.

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I hope these turn out good if anyone decides to try them! =]] they all sound sooooooo yummy! Well, I'm off to do my work-out now!

Until next time!

-mamabear