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"Here's how to make corned beef and cabbage the right way. My thanks to my great-grandmother Delia O'Dowd and other NYC Irish Catholics who invented it. It is not normally eaten in Ireland, folks!"

Ingredients: yellow mustard, corned beef brisket...

"I have been making these for years and years now, and I always like to have a jar handy in the pantry. They are great to munch on with cold meats, cheeses, bread and crackers, as well as being a much loved and traditional accompaniment to Ploughman's Lunch and also Fish and Chips. You will often see large jars of pickled onions in British fish..."

Ingredients: pickling vinegar, malt vinegar...

"This is an Irish treat that is wonderful for Saint Patrick's Day, or anytime!"

Ingredients: confectioners' sugar, eggs...

"A true Irish celebration dish! Served cold and thinly sliced, this is a great buffet favorite in many Irish households during the holiday season. While not difficult to prepare, it does require quite a bit of time and care."

Ingredients: ground mace, garlic...

"Mead, made from fermented honey, was the earliest of all alcoholic beverages; the BEAKER people who inhabited England from 2000BC were known to have drunk it or something like it. Long before the Romans arrived in Britain, Celtic Druid Bards described the island, as dicovered in ancient Roman texts, as "The Isle of Honey". It was orginally..."

Ingredients: cinnamon sticks, baker's yeast...

"Alton Brown's now famous corned beef recipe (takes 10 days to complete) using fresh brisket, 10 days, and some saltpeter."

Ingredients: cinnamon sticks, ice...

"This is a traditional ritualistic cake that we serve after Christmas dinner. We sing the "we want some figgy pudding" song and when it comes to the table we heat a metal ladle full of brandy and light it up then pour the bluish flames over the top! We serve it with Non-Alcoholic Hard Sauce."

Ingredients: cinnamon, cheesecloth...

"Yorkshire Tea is a black tea blend produced by Taylors of Harrogate, one of the few remaining family tea and coffee merchants in the UK. The company was founded in 1886 by Yorkshire tea merchant Charles Taylor. Needless to say I drink Yorkshire tea at home in France, I bring boxes and boxes of it back from the UK when I travel there!
The Yorkshire..."

Ingredients: currants, tea, eggs...

"These chewy bread-cakes have been fed to children in Ireland for years, in the belief that vigorous chewing would strengthen their young jaws. The children of today like them because they are fun to eat. And because they are low in fat and high in fiber, they are definitely healthful. The loaf is cut in quarters, or "farls" before it is baked...."

Ingredients: eggs, oatmeal, salt...

""Though honey is sweet, do not lick it off a briar." (Breton proverb). This recipe is from Celtic Folklore Cooking, by Joanne Asala. Holidays associated with this recipe: Imbolc, Yule."

Ingredients: honey, oatmeal, cold water...

"Vodka is the perfect spirit for experimentation and handy for quick & interesting cocktails or just serve neat. My son the Mixology student shared these with me. This infusion is wonderfully refreshing in summer coolers and minimalist martini's."

Ingredients: vodka, English cucumbers...

"A sweet and spicy cake made with Guinness or other Stout beer. Can use 1 1/2 teaspoons of my Sweet spice blend #164342 instead of the individual spices. Dried fruit should soak overnight, so start the night before."

Ingredients: ground cardamom, crystallized ginger...

"A delicious way to serve lamb from the Irish Heritage Cookbook. Very easy to make. The orange is a nice compliment to the lamb. Even my non-lamb loving husband likes it. Posted for ZWT3. I am thinking this would go nicely with pork also."

Ingredients: salt & freshly ground black pepper, fresh chives...

"I grew up on corned beef and cabbage, which we had regularly (and not just on St. Patrick's Day). It was something I always enjoyed so I was surprised when, as an adult, I came across many people who professed their dislike for the meal. After much experimenting, I came up with a juicy, tender corned beef that everybody likes, even the corned..."

Ingredients: dark corn syrup, Dijon mustard...