Boiled Ulster Fruit Cake
Boiled Fruit Cake is a Northern Irish recipe where some of the ingredients are boiled before adding to the mix. This keeps it very moist.
Ingredients:
225g / 8oz butter
225g / 8oz demerara sugar
285ml / ½ pint Guiness
330g/ 12 oz mixed dried fruit
450g / 1lb Self Raising flour
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg
3 eggs
Method:
Heat a saucepan on a medium flame and add the butter, sugar and stout. Stir gently to melt the butter but do not let it bubble. Add the fruit. Simmer for five minutes and leave to cool. Heat the oven to 180°C / 350F / Gas Mark 4. Grease a cake tin. Add the flour and spices to the cooled liquid mixture and mix.. Pour into cake and bake for two hours. Insert a knife in the centre of the cake and if it is dry when removed, the cake is baked.
Brandy Butter
Ingredients:
4 tbsp softened, unsalted butter
4 ozs of castor sugar
5 tbsp brandy
1 tsp vanilla extract
Method:
Put all the ingredients into a bowl. Beat with an electric beater until the mixture is smooth and well integrated. Refrigerate for at least 4 hours until the mixture is firm.
Irish Christmas Ham
Ingredients:
2kg / 4lb 6oz ham joint, boned
1 onion, sliced
2 bay leaves
10 whole black peppercorns
large pan of water
To make the glaze:
3 tbsp. orange marmalade
2 tsp dried chilli flakes
Method:
Boil the ham in water and herbs and spices and simmer for one hour thirty minutes
Remove the ham from the pan and leave to cool. Preheat oven to 180°C / 325F / Gas Mark 4. Remove rind from the ham and cover with the mixture of marmalade and chills With the glazed top upwards, place the ham in a roasting tin and bake for 45 minutes.
Comments
Derdriu
The ham would be cooked in advance at Christmas. The goose would be cooked on the day. It is fatty meat so the fat is not tasty when it is cold and congealed.
It appears from the recipes that boiled roast goose traditionally is not served alone.
Is spiced beef served traditionally, like boiled roast goose, with roast ham? Or was it considered traditional to also opt for serving spiced beef without boiled roast goose?
So likewise would Christmas ham be served always with boiled roast goose or would it happen sometimes, but still traditionally, to have it on its own?
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Ha, yes exactly. But Wild Swimming is very popular around freezing British Isles coastal waters.. Sunday mornings see hundreds take to the sea for a wild swim .
Not me, however.
Why would anyone swim in frigid waters unnecessarily?
2021 addition The Irish Christmas Swim
Here is a completely new one to me. The Irish Christmas swim, in the Atlantic Ocean , or wherever.
I have added it above. BRRRRRRRRR COLD !
Oct 2020
Time to update my Christmas pages .
I have found anoher Irish Christmas tradition and added it above.
Here are some lovely Irish Christmas things to try .
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