Northern Irish Recipes

Recipes are here to support the traditions they belong to. Each one lists the tin it was written for and scales to yours.

10 recipes

Recipe · 2 hr 30 min

Sponge soaked in sherry, fruit, thick custard and whipped cream: the make-ahead pudding that has graced Christmas tables for generations.

Recipe · 1 hr 40 min

Sharp Bramley apples between two layers of sweet shortcrust on a pie plate: the apple tart of every Northern Irish kitchen.

Recipe · 1 hr

Northern Ireland's nutty brown soda bread, baked in a loaf tin with wholemeal flour, oats and buttermilk.

Recipe · 35 min

Soft, sweet scone-like buns topped with crunchy sugar: a favourite of Northern Irish bakery counters.

Recipe · 1 hr 25 min

Northern Ireland's chewy-crisp honeycomb toffee, famously sold at the Ould Lammas Fair in Ballycastle.

Recipe · 2 hr 20 min

Northern Ireland's no-bake traybake: digestives, marshmallows and glacé cherries rolled in coconut and sliced.

Recipe · 40 min

Northern Ireland's cooked breakfast, made unique by soda farls and potato bread fried golden in the pan.

Recipe · 35 min

Creamy mashed potato beaten with scallions and milk, served with a pool of melting butter.

Recipe · 30 min

Quick griddle-cooked soda bread, cut into quarters and ready in 30 minutes: the other half of the Ulster fry.

Recipe · 55 min

Soft, thin griddle bread made from mashed potato and a little flour, cut into farls and fried for the Ulster fry.

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