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The German captain checked the Barkley off his \"hit list\" and bid the sunken ship's crew good night, pointing them in the general direction of the Irish coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After rowing awhile, they set down the life boat's anchor and shouted all night for rescue. Around five o'clock the next morning, they were rescued by a passing ship and ferried back to Dublin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torpedo attacks in the Irish Sea were so frequent at the time that when the crew went to report their ordeal to government officials at the Custom House, they waited three hours to be interviewed. Eventually, they gave up waiting and went to the Guinness brewery instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There, the superintendent gave them a swig of brandy — even Guinness employees recognize that some situations merit stronger stuff — and sent them home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remains of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.infomar.ie/data/Shipwrecks/Box50/pdfs/WMBarkley_Final.pdf\">W.M. 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Those barrels were the unexpected heroes in a drama that genuinely allowed the survivors to state, with a straight face, that, yes, Guinness had actually saved their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2018/03/16/st-patricks-day-peter-moloney\">\u003cem>story first appeared\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> in Cognoscenti, member station WBUR's ideas and opinion page.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A native of Ireland, Peter Moloney teaches globalization at Boston College. \u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2018 \u003ca href=\"http://www.wbur.org\">WBUR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"If you're picking up a glass of Guinness this St. Patrick's Day, savor it while pondering this story from 1917, when Ireland's famous stout was cause for true celebration: It saved lives.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1521486398,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":690},"headData":{"title":"For St. Patrick's Day, A True Tale Of 8 Sailors Saved By Guinness | KQED","description":"If you're picking up a glass of Guinness this St. Patrick's Day, savor it while pondering this story from 1917, when Ireland's famous stout was cause for true celebration: It saved lives.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"125836 https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=125836","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2018/03/17/for-st-patricks-day-a-true-tale-of-8-sailors-saved-by-guinness/","disqusTitle":"For St. Patrick's Day, A True Tale Of 8 Sailors Saved By Guinness","nprImageCredit":"Bert Hardy","nprByline":"Peter Moloney, WBUR, NPR Food","nprImageAgency":"Getty Images","nprStoryId":"594440438","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=594440438&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/03/17/594440438/for-st-patricks-day-a-true-tale-of-8-sailors-saved-by-guinness?ft=nprml&f=594440438","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Sat, 17 Mar 2018 13:59:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Sat, 17 Mar 2018 07:00:11 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Sat, 17 Mar 2018 13:59:19 -0400","path":"/bayareabites/125836/for-st-patricks-day-a-true-tale-of-8-sailors-saved-by-guinness","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If you're picking up a glass of Guinness this St. Patrick's Day, savor it while pondering this story from 1917, when Ireland's famous stout was cause for true celebration: It saved lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strange tale takes place in the Irish Sea toward the end of World War I. Besides the traditional dangers of crossing this busy body of water in a small craft, the years 1914 to 1918 featured the additional danger of German submarines, which targeted all enemy vessels (not just military ones) and sunk many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the challenge that Guinness steamships, with cargo full of stout, faced every day crossing the Irish Sea from Dublin to their destination, Liverpool, in the northwest of the United Kingdom. The trip was about 135 miles and took most of a day, depending on the weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The W.M. Barkley was the pride of the Guinness fleet. Guinness bought it from Belfast shipbuilder John Kelly & Sons in 1913, just a year before the war erupted. Then, because of the conflict, the ship was requisitioned by the British Admiralty for the war effort. (Ireland was still part of the U.K. at this time, so it was a legal act of government.) By 1917, the ship was deemed unsuitable for its wartime mission and returned to Guinness for commercial use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 12, 1917, the Barkley set off from Dublin on its fateful trip to Liverpool, with its cargo of stout and a crew of 13. Nearly three hours into its journey, disaster struck: A torpedo from the German UC-75 submarine hit the ship and split it in two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crew, shocked and jolted, went scurrying for a lifeboat. As the story goes, the ship's cook, Thomas McGlue, had been making a cup of tea when the impact of the torpedo tossed the hot water, scalding his arm. By the time he got to the lifeboat, the sun had set and the ship was sinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Barkley was doing her best to go down, but the [beer] barrels were fighting their way up through the hatches, and that kept us afloat a bit longer,\" McGlue told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.irishships.com/guinness_boats.html#THE%20SINKING%20OF%20THE%20S.S.W.M.BARKLEY\">Guinness HARP magazine\u003c/a> in 1964. \"In fact, it's the reason any of us got out of there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The floating barrels of stout in the cargo hold made it possible for eight of the 13 souls aboard to escape into the night on a lifeboat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now — away from the sinking ship — the surviving crew was questioned by the captain of the German submarine about the sunken boat's identity. The German captain checked the Barkley off his \"hit list\" and bid the sunken ship's crew good night, pointing them in the general direction of the Irish coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After rowing awhile, they set down the life boat's anchor and shouted all night for rescue. Around five o'clock the next morning, they were rescued by a passing ship and ferried back to Dublin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torpedo attacks in the Irish Sea were so frequent at the time that when the crew went to report their ordeal to government officials at the Custom House, they waited three hours to be interviewed. Eventually, they gave up waiting and went to the Guinness brewery instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There, the superintendent gave them a swig of brandy — even Guinness employees recognize that some situations merit stronger stuff — and sent them home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remains of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.infomar.ie/data/Shipwrecks/Box50/pdfs/WMBarkley_Final.pdf\">W.M. Barkley\u003c/a> now rest on the seafloor about 16 miles east of Dublin Port, at a depth of about 180 feet. Broken in two, they show little evidence of the deadly drama that unfolded on that October night in 1917.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stout barrels held in its cargo washed up on local shores for weeks after the ship sank. Those barrels were the unexpected heroes in a drama that genuinely allowed the survivors to state, with a straight face, that, yes, Guinness had actually saved their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2018/03/16/st-patricks-day-peter-moloney\">\u003cem>story first appeared\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> in Cognoscenti, member station WBUR's ideas and opinion page.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A native of Ireland, Peter Moloney teaches globalization at Boston College. \u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2018 \u003ca href=\"http://www.wbur.org\">WBUR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/125836/for-st-patricks-day-a-true-tale-of-8-sailors-saved-by-guinness","authors":["byline_bayareabites_125836"],"categories":["bayareabites_301","bayareabites_11028","bayareabites_2090","bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_1763","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_122","bayareabites_476","bayareabites_123"],"featImg":"bayareabites_125837","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_125803":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_125803","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"125803","score":null,"sort":[1521216613000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"when-other-cultures-holidays-become-an-excuse-to-party","title":"When Other Cultures' Holidays Become An Excuse To Party","publishDate":1521216613,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>In one sense, St. Patrick's Day is a failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The holiday as we know it in America was \u003ca href=\"http://time.com/3744055/america-invented-st-patricks-day/\">promoted by activists to celebrate Irish culture\u003c/a>, in order to fight prejudice against Irish immigrants. Today, many of us celebrate by going out drinking and acting out the very stereotypes the day was created to combat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, 150 years ago nativists in the U.S. were burning Irish Catholic churches to the ground. Today on St. Patrick's Day, Americans of all backgrounds wear green, drink Guinness, and put on pins that say \"Kiss me I'm Irish.\" There's something beautiful about that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, holidays associated with various other immigrant groups have begun to gain mainstream acceptance, most notably Cinco de Mayo, which has followed a similar path as St. Patrick's Day – started by activists to celebrate Mexican culture, embraced by people just looking for a good time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lunar New Year and Dia De Los Muertos are also well on their way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When one culture's holiday becomes everyone's excuse to party, what's gained and what's lost? And how does it feel when it's your holiday?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find out, I go to a Chinese New Year party with no Chinese people and a Passover Seder with no Jewish people for this week's episode of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sporkful.com/\">The Sporkful podcast\u003c/a>. Plus, comedian Jenny Yang offers advice for marketing new holidays:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://art19.com/shows/the-sporkful/episodes/af83a051-a51f-44af-b772-2b88fb824f83/embed?theme=dark-custom\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px; border: 0 none;\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Gentile Passover\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\"We're going to read from Exodus tonight,\" explains Tiffany Wang, as she welcomes me to Gentile Passover, an annual gathering she and her sister, Charlene Wang de Chen, host.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't have a Haggada,\" Tiffany continues, referring to the book Jews use as a guide at Passover Seder, or ritual meal, \"but we know the Passover story because we grew up in a Christian household.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Gentile Passover tradition began 10 years ago. Charlene was living in Beijing and read about how President Obama was hosting a Passover in the White House. She decided she'd host one, too, which is no surprise if you know how she and Tiffany were raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They're Chinese-American, but every St. Patrick's Day their mom made corned beef, potatoes and cabbage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We love eating,\" says Charlene, \"and we just love learning more about cultures through their food traditions. That's obviously the funnest way to learn about it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charlene scrambled around Beijing to gather the symbolic foods needed for a Passover Seder – salt water for tears, bitter herbs for the bitterness of slavery, and of course, matzo (unleavened bread), because Jews were fleeing the Egyptians and didn't have time for our bread to rise. (That last item required a few phone calls to obtain.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first Gentile Passover was a big success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everyone was so down for it, on an occasion none of them traditionally celebrate, which I thought was awesome,\" Charlene recalls. \"Everyone was bringing this openness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I joined last year's Gentile Passover, I was the only Jewish person in the room. We were joined by Charlene's husband, Tony Chen, Tiffany's fiancé, and two friends, Tim Cotton and Anne-Laure Py. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They proudly showed me the two different types of matzo they had purchased, and served me a delicious cocktail made with Campari and Manischewitz, the latter being a Jewish ceremonial wine that is the best wine because it's filled with sugar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cocktail was fantastic, and the menu looked promising. Tiffany and Charlene had prepared matzo ball soup and short ribs, which made me very happy, because I've long advocated replacing the more traditional brisket with short ribs at Passover and all year round.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a beautiful Seder plate, and even though I'm not especially religious myself, I was very impressed with the research and work they had done to respect the holiday's customs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_125805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1279px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2018/03/seder-1-50b46f0d91e38bfe29d17734325c539af837ba54.jpe\" alt='A Seder plate at the \"Gentile Passover\" hosted by Tiffany Wang and her sister, Charlene Wang de Chen, last year.' width=\"1279\" height=\"959\" class=\"size-full wp-image-125805\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2018/03/seder-1-50b46f0d91e38bfe29d17734325c539af837ba54.jpe 1279w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2018/03/seder-1-50b46f0d91e38bfe29d17734325c539af837ba54-160x120.jpe 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2018/03/seder-1-50b46f0d91e38bfe29d17734325c539af837ba54-800x600.jpe 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2018/03/seder-1-50b46f0d91e38bfe29d17734325c539af837ba54-768x576.jpe 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2018/03/seder-1-50b46f0d91e38bfe29d17734325c539af837ba54-1020x765.jpe 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2018/03/seder-1-50b46f0d91e38bfe29d17734325c539af837ba54-1180x885.jpe 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2018/03/seder-1-50b46f0d91e38bfe29d17734325c539af837ba54-960x720.jpe 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2018/03/seder-1-50b46f0d91e38bfe29d17734325c539af837ba54-240x180.jpe 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2018/03/seder-1-50b46f0d91e38bfe29d17734325c539af837ba54-375x281.jpe 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2018/03/seder-1-50b46f0d91e38bfe29d17734325c539af837ba54-520x390.jpe 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1279px) 100vw, 1279px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Seder plate at the \"Gentile Passover\" hosted by Tiffany Wang and her sister, Charlene Wang de Chen, last year. \u003ccite>(Dan Pashman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I did cringe a bit when they told me they had rugelach, a Jewish pastry, for dessert. Most Jews would not serve rugelach at Passover because it contains leavened bread. Charlene and Tiffany knew that, but, they said, rugelach is delicious. I couldn't argue with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We read the story of the Jews being freed from slavery in Egypt, as recounted in Exodus, and dinner was served. We skipped rituals like dipping parsley in salt water and putting bitter herbs on matzo. And that felt strange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At my family's Passover Seder, we use a Haggada written by my wife, Janie, that I love very much. But the part of it I know best is page 21. Because page 21 is where it says, \"Dinner is served.\" From the time we open that book I keep thinking, \"Please get me to page 21!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, I'm often eager to rush through the rituals. At Gentile Passover, I found myself missing them. It turns out those traditions mean more to me than I realized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the experience of watching people who aren't Jewish observe their version of customs I grew up with was in some ways strange and unsettling, it was also beautiful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wondered about what my great-grandparents, who came to America from Eastern Europe, would think if they saw me celebrating Passover with two Chinese-American Christians, a Chinese-born Muslim, a Sri Lankan-American, and two white European Christians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meal itself was fantastic. The matzo balls were just the right combo of soft on the outside and firm inside, and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.marthastewart.com/968091/haroset-braised-short-ribs\">short ribs braised in charoset\u003c/a> were savory and sweet, reaffirming my belief in their superiority over brisket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One key Passover tradition is that you're supposed to ask questions – big questions like \"What's the point of all this?\" After the meal I asked everyone, when we celebrate other people's holidays, what's gained and what's lost?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're trying to understand other cultures, but in doing that and changing it, you dilute them,\" says Charlene and Tiffany's friend Tim. \"A more pure and authentic Seder would be less accessible to me, who's not Jewish. So this is more accessible to me, but it also does change it. So there's a tension there. While it's very positive that we learn all these things, I can see why some people get worried that if you do that to the final degree, it ceases to exist as its own tradition and it becomes this amorphous globalized thing that doesn't really mean anything.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Something I've thought about for a long time is, How Chinese are my kids going to be?\" adds Tiffany. \"And the answer is, less than me. And I'm less than my parents. I'm going to marry a Sri Lankan man. My children are going to be Chinese and Sri Lankan, and very American at the same time. So there will be a dilution of our culture. That can feel like something you can mourn. But then whatever we create from that may also be something new and exciting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dan Pashman hosts the James Beard Award-nominated food podcast \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sporkful.com/\">\u003cem>The Sporkful\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, which this week features the episode \"Other People's Holidays.\" It's available in \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sporkful/id350709629\">\u003cem>Apple Podcasts\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stitcher/the-sporkful\">\u003cem>Stitcher\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, or wherever you listen.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2018 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"From St. Patrick's Day to Cinco de Mayo, holidays from specific cultures and religions have been embraced by people looking for a reason to celebrate. What's gained and what's lost?","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1521317684,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://art19.com/shows/the-sporkful/episodes/af83a051-a51f-44af-b772-2b88fb824f83/embed"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":34,"wordCount":1242},"headData":{"title":"When Other Cultures' Holidays Become An Excuse To Party | KQED","description":"From St. Patrick's Day to Cinco de Mayo, holidays from specific cultures and religions have been embraced by people looking for a reason to celebrate. 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Today, many of us celebrate by going out drinking and acting out the very stereotypes the day was created to combat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, 150 years ago nativists in the U.S. were burning Irish Catholic churches to the ground. Today on St. Patrick's Day, Americans of all backgrounds wear green, drink Guinness, and put on pins that say \"Kiss me I'm Irish.\" There's something beautiful about that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, holidays associated with various other immigrant groups have begun to gain mainstream acceptance, most notably Cinco de Mayo, which has followed a similar path as St. Patrick's Day – started by activists to celebrate Mexican culture, embraced by people just looking for a good time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lunar New Year and Dia De Los Muertos are also well on their way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When one culture's holiday becomes everyone's excuse to party, what's gained and what's lost? And how does it feel when it's your holiday?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find out, I go to a Chinese New Year party with no Chinese people and a Passover Seder with no Jewish people for this week's episode of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sporkful.com/\">The Sporkful podcast\u003c/a>. Plus, comedian Jenny Yang offers advice for marketing new holidays:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://art19.com/shows/the-sporkful/episodes/af83a051-a51f-44af-b772-2b88fb824f83/embed?theme=dark-custom\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px; border: 0 none;\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Gentile Passover\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\"We're going to read from Exodus tonight,\" explains Tiffany Wang, as she welcomes me to Gentile Passover, an annual gathering she and her sister, Charlene Wang de Chen, host.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't have a Haggada,\" Tiffany continues, referring to the book Jews use as a guide at Passover Seder, or ritual meal, \"but we know the Passover story because we grew up in a Christian household.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Gentile Passover tradition began 10 years ago. Charlene was living in Beijing and read about how President Obama was hosting a Passover in the White House. She decided she'd host one, too, which is no surprise if you know how she and Tiffany were raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They're Chinese-American, but every St. Patrick's Day their mom made corned beef, potatoes and cabbage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We love eating,\" says Charlene, \"and we just love learning more about cultures through their food traditions. That's obviously the funnest way to learn about it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charlene scrambled around Beijing to gather the symbolic foods needed for a Passover Seder – salt water for tears, bitter herbs for the bitterness of slavery, and of course, matzo (unleavened bread), because Jews were fleeing the Egyptians and didn't have time for our bread to rise. (That last item required a few phone calls to obtain.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first Gentile Passover was a big success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everyone was so down for it, on an occasion none of them traditionally celebrate, which I thought was awesome,\" Charlene recalls. \"Everyone was bringing this openness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I joined last year's Gentile Passover, I was the only Jewish person in the room. We were joined by Charlene's husband, Tony Chen, Tiffany's fiancé, and two friends, Tim Cotton and Anne-Laure Py. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They proudly showed me the two different types of matzo they had purchased, and served me a delicious cocktail made with Campari and Manischewitz, the latter being a Jewish ceremonial wine that is the best wine because it's filled with sugar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cocktail was fantastic, and the menu looked promising. Tiffany and Charlene had prepared matzo ball soup and short ribs, which made me very happy, because I've long advocated replacing the more traditional brisket with short ribs at Passover and all year round.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a beautiful Seder plate, and even though I'm not especially religious myself, I was very impressed with the research and work they had done to respect the holiday's customs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_125805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1279px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2018/03/seder-1-50b46f0d91e38bfe29d17734325c539af837ba54.jpe\" alt='A Seder plate at the \"Gentile Passover\" hosted by Tiffany Wang and her sister, Charlene Wang de Chen, last year.' width=\"1279\" height=\"959\" class=\"size-full wp-image-125805\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2018/03/seder-1-50b46f0d91e38bfe29d17734325c539af837ba54.jpe 1279w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2018/03/seder-1-50b46f0d91e38bfe29d17734325c539af837ba54-160x120.jpe 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2018/03/seder-1-50b46f0d91e38bfe29d17734325c539af837ba54-800x600.jpe 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2018/03/seder-1-50b46f0d91e38bfe29d17734325c539af837ba54-768x576.jpe 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2018/03/seder-1-50b46f0d91e38bfe29d17734325c539af837ba54-1020x765.jpe 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2018/03/seder-1-50b46f0d91e38bfe29d17734325c539af837ba54-1180x885.jpe 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2018/03/seder-1-50b46f0d91e38bfe29d17734325c539af837ba54-960x720.jpe 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2018/03/seder-1-50b46f0d91e38bfe29d17734325c539af837ba54-240x180.jpe 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2018/03/seder-1-50b46f0d91e38bfe29d17734325c539af837ba54-375x281.jpe 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2018/03/seder-1-50b46f0d91e38bfe29d17734325c539af837ba54-520x390.jpe 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1279px) 100vw, 1279px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Seder plate at the \"Gentile Passover\" hosted by Tiffany Wang and her sister, Charlene Wang de Chen, last year. \u003ccite>(Dan Pashman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I did cringe a bit when they told me they had rugelach, a Jewish pastry, for dessert. Most Jews would not serve rugelach at Passover because it contains leavened bread. Charlene and Tiffany knew that, but, they said, rugelach is delicious. I couldn't argue with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We read the story of the Jews being freed from slavery in Egypt, as recounted in Exodus, and dinner was served. We skipped rituals like dipping parsley in salt water and putting bitter herbs on matzo. And that felt strange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At my family's Passover Seder, we use a Haggada written by my wife, Janie, that I love very much. But the part of it I know best is page 21. Because page 21 is where it says, \"Dinner is served.\" From the time we open that book I keep thinking, \"Please get me to page 21!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, I'm often eager to rush through the rituals. At Gentile Passover, I found myself missing them. It turns out those traditions mean more to me than I realized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the experience of watching people who aren't Jewish observe their version of customs I grew up with was in some ways strange and unsettling, it was also beautiful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wondered about what my great-grandparents, who came to America from Eastern Europe, would think if they saw me celebrating Passover with two Chinese-American Christians, a Chinese-born Muslim, a Sri Lankan-American, and two white European Christians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meal itself was fantastic. The matzo balls were just the right combo of soft on the outside and firm inside, and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.marthastewart.com/968091/haroset-braised-short-ribs\">short ribs braised in charoset\u003c/a> were savory and sweet, reaffirming my belief in their superiority over brisket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One key Passover tradition is that you're supposed to ask questions – big questions like \"What's the point of all this?\" After the meal I asked everyone, when we celebrate other people's holidays, what's gained and what's lost?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're trying to understand other cultures, but in doing that and changing it, you dilute them,\" says Charlene and Tiffany's friend Tim. \"A more pure and authentic Seder would be less accessible to me, who's not Jewish. So this is more accessible to me, but it also does change it. So there's a tension there. While it's very positive that we learn all these things, I can see why some people get worried that if you do that to the final degree, it ceases to exist as its own tradition and it becomes this amorphous globalized thing that doesn't really mean anything.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Something I've thought about for a long time is, How Chinese are my kids going to be?\" adds Tiffany. \"And the answer is, less than me. And I'm less than my parents. I'm going to marry a Sri Lankan man. My children are going to be Chinese and Sri Lankan, and very American at the same time. So there will be a dilution of our culture. That can feel like something you can mourn. But then whatever we create from that may also be something new and exciting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dan Pashman hosts the James Beard Award-nominated food podcast \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sporkful.com/\">\u003cem>The Sporkful\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, which this week features the episode \"Other People's Holidays.\" It's available in \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sporkful/id350709629\">\u003cem>Apple Podcasts\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stitcher/the-sporkful\">\u003cem>Stitcher\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, or wherever you listen.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2018 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/125803/when-other-cultures-holidays-become-an-excuse-to-party","authors":["byline_bayareabites_125803"],"categories":["bayareabites_11028","bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_1763","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_957","bayareabites_2041","bayareabites_123"],"featImg":"bayareabites_125804","label":"source_bayareabites_125803"},"bayareabites_107767":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_107767","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"107767","score":null,"sort":[1458268692000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"guinness-tells-beer-drinkers-keep-your-head-and-embrace-the-stache","title":"Guinness Tells Beer Drinkers: Keep Your Head And Embrace The 'Stache","publishDate":1458268692,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>If you're planning to hoist a pint of Irish dry stout for St. Patrick's Day, the folks at Guinness have a polite request: Don't slurp the foamy head off their beer. It's essentially a nitrogen cap, they say, that's protecting the flavors underneath from being oxidized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>St. Patrick's is a huge day for the legendary brewer – of the 70 million people who are estimated to be celebrating today, around 13 million will also drink a glass of Guinness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guinness is often called \"the black stuff\" – but the creamy, almost white foam that makes up the beer's head is also crucial to its enjoyment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The wrong way to drink a Guinness: Don't slurp off the foam head.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/McCloy_WrongWay.gif\" alt=\"McCloy_WrongWay\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107776\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find out why, we spoke to Domhnall Marnell, Guinness' brewery ambassador in Dublin, who's currently on a visit to the U.S. Marnell says he wants people to enjoy their entire beer, from the top to the bottom of a pint. And that's where the nitrogen comes in. Packed into the beer's head, it keeps the stout's flavor fresh; it also imparts a smooth and velvety texture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marnell describes how it works:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"Nitrogen bubbles have two properties that are really important: First of all, they're lighter than CO2 bubbles. And the second thing is that because they're so small, they bond together. So what you'll notice on a Guinness is that all the nitrogen settles to the top. But unlike a carbonated head, it doesn't dissipate into the air, it doesn't disappear as you go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because they're all so small and they've bonded together, they'll remain firmly on the top. And that's what gives you that pillowy effect when you first have that sip of a Guinness draft stout. And that's also what has created that phenomenon of the Guinness mustache – you'll often see when somebody has that first lovely gulp of a Guinness draft beer, they're left with some nitrogen residue on their upper lip.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>As for how the nitrogen interacts with the beer, Marnell says it's all about texture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What it allows you to do, is to give the drinker a beer that's very lightly carbonated, but without having the perception of being flat,\" he says. Marnell adds, \"The nitrogen is acting as a guard for the beer, it's blocking off the elements, it's not allowing the oxygen in the air to get down to the beer and to eat up the little carbonation that's in there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from preventing oxidation, Marnell says, that cap of nitrogen should be left in place for another reason: it has a bitter taste that would dominate the beer's flavor if the whole foamy head is simply slurped off the top of a fresh pint.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The right way: Embrace the foam mustache.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/McCloy_RightWay.gif\" alt=\"McCloy_RightWay\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107775\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're the type who enjoys a bit of history with your beer, Marnell has you covered – after all, he works for a brewery that's been in business for centuries, and which first exported beer to America back in 1817.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The use of nitrogen dates back to 1954, Marnell says, when a Guinness team led by a scientist named Michael Ash developed a beer dispensing system that uses a mix of gases — about 75 percent nitrogen, along with 25 percent of the more standard carbon dioxide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want to thank Ash for his contributions to the world's beer enjoyment, you still can: He's currently 89 years old and lives in Wales, Marnell says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those who read this story's headline and thought that perhaps it had to do with responsible drinking, you're not wrong. Acknowledging that some people tend to focus more on drinking mass quantities than savoring quality on St. Patrick's Day, Marnell says that Guinness has launched a campaign asking people \"to respect the beer,\" appreciate its flavor, and drink responsibly. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Cheers!\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/McCloy_Cheers.gif\" alt=\"McCloy_Cheers\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107770\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2016 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The folks at Guinness have a polite request: Don't slurp the foamy head off their beer. It's essentially a nitrogen cap, they say, that's protecting the flavors underneath from being oxidized.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1458268692,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":679},"headData":{"title":"Guinness Tells Beer Drinkers: Keep Your Head And Embrace The 'Stache | KQED","description":"The folks at Guinness have a polite request: Don't slurp the foamy head off their beer. 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It's essentially a nitrogen cap, they say, that's protecting the flavors underneath from being oxidized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>St. Patrick's is a huge day for the legendary brewer – of the 70 million people who are estimated to be celebrating today, around 13 million will also drink a glass of Guinness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guinness is often called \"the black stuff\" – but the creamy, almost white foam that makes up the beer's head is also crucial to its enjoyment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The wrong way to drink a Guinness: Don't slurp off the foam head.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/McCloy_WrongWay.gif\" alt=\"McCloy_WrongWay\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107776\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find out why, we spoke to Domhnall Marnell, Guinness' brewery ambassador in Dublin, who's currently on a visit to the U.S. Marnell says he wants people to enjoy their entire beer, from the top to the bottom of a pint. And that's where the nitrogen comes in. Packed into the beer's head, it keeps the stout's flavor fresh; it also imparts a smooth and velvety texture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marnell describes how it works:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"Nitrogen bubbles have two properties that are really important: First of all, they're lighter than CO2 bubbles. And the second thing is that because they're so small, they bond together. So what you'll notice on a Guinness is that all the nitrogen settles to the top. But unlike a carbonated head, it doesn't dissipate into the air, it doesn't disappear as you go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because they're all so small and they've bonded together, they'll remain firmly on the top. And that's what gives you that pillowy effect when you first have that sip of a Guinness draft stout. And that's also what has created that phenomenon of the Guinness mustache – you'll often see when somebody has that first lovely gulp of a Guinness draft beer, they're left with some nitrogen residue on their upper lip.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>As for how the nitrogen interacts with the beer, Marnell says it's all about texture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What it allows you to do, is to give the drinker a beer that's very lightly carbonated, but without having the perception of being flat,\" he says. Marnell adds, \"The nitrogen is acting as a guard for the beer, it's blocking off the elements, it's not allowing the oxygen in the air to get down to the beer and to eat up the little carbonation that's in there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from preventing oxidation, Marnell says, that cap of nitrogen should be left in place for another reason: it has a bitter taste that would dominate the beer's flavor if the whole foamy head is simply slurped off the top of a fresh pint.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The right way: Embrace the foam mustache.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/McCloy_RightWay.gif\" alt=\"McCloy_RightWay\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107775\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're the type who enjoys a bit of history with your beer, Marnell has you covered – after all, he works for a brewery that's been in business for centuries, and which first exported beer to America back in 1817.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The use of nitrogen dates back to 1954, Marnell says, when a Guinness team led by a scientist named Michael Ash developed a beer dispensing system that uses a mix of gases — about 75 percent nitrogen, along with 25 percent of the more standard carbon dioxide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want to thank Ash for his contributions to the world's beer enjoyment, you still can: He's currently 89 years old and lives in Wales, Marnell says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those who read this story's headline and thought that perhaps it had to do with responsible drinking, you're not wrong. Acknowledging that some people tend to focus more on drinking mass quantities than savoring quality on St. Patrick's Day, Marnell says that Guinness has launched a campaign asking people \"to respect the beer,\" appreciate its flavor, and drink responsibly. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Cheers!\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/McCloy_Cheers.gif\" alt=\"McCloy_Cheers\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107770\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2016 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/107767/guinness-tells-beer-drinkers-keep-your-head-and-embrace-the-stache","authors":["byline_bayareabites_107767"],"categories":["bayareabites_301","bayareabites_1763"],"tags":["bayareabites_14753","bayareabites_122","bayareabites_123"],"featImg":"bayareabites_107771","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_107752":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_107752","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"107752","score":null,"sort":[1458232660000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"feast-like-its-399-what-would-st-patrick-eat","title":"Feast Like It's 399: What Would St. Patrick Eat?","publishDate":1458232660,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>Today is the day that the Guinness flows freely, tough brisket is transformed into tender corned beef, and we celebrate the Emerald Isle with humble cabbage. This holy trinity of meat, veg, and stout is the communion of St. Patrick's Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the history of that meal is relatively short, going back mainly to trade and immigration in the 18th and 19th centuries. Want to feast like St. Patrick would have celebrated more than 1,600 years ago? Let's party like it's 399.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, it's important to remember that Patrick wasn't born in Ireland, but in late 4th-century Britain, a period of great change. Anglo-Saxons from Germany, Denmark and The Netherlands were just moving in and beginning to push out the Mediterranean culture and cuisine of the Romans, who had occupied Britain for several centuries. That means a lot of different culinary influences from which to choose your menu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrick grew up in \"a high status, slave-owning Romano-British family,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.caitlingreen.org/\">Caitlin Green\u003c/a> of the University of Cambridge's Institute for Continuing Education. \"We would clearly expect him to have a very late Roman aristocratic lifestyle in his youth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Think Mediterranean and French wines \"imported on a large scale,\" says Mark McKerracher, an archaeologist who blogs about Anglo-Saxon agriculture at \u003ca href=\"http://farmingunearthed.wordpress.com/\">Farming Unearthed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coriander and dill, McKerracher says, were other \"Roman innovations\" that gave dishes Mediterranean flair, as were peas and early relatives of the broad bean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Green, game was also moving onto the menu. \"Very little of this was eaten in the Romano-British period in general,\" she says. \"But there is evidence for a greater consumption of venison and wild birds in the very late/post-Roman era.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a teenager, Patrick ended up in Ireland, one of the few European outposts Roman influence failed to reach. The popular story, told by Patrick in his \u003cem>Confessio\u003c/em>, is that he was stolen away by pirates and sold into slavery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Cambridge University's \u003ca href=\"https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/was-st-patrick-a-slave-trading-roman-official-who-fled-to-ireland\">Roy Flechner\u003c/a> has suggested that Patrick was running away from the expectation that he would take over his father's official duties — and even that Patrick might have been the slave trader, rather than the slave. That changes whether we think he dined like an expat with a mild case of \u003cem>affluenza\u003c/em> or subsisted like an enslaved herdsman, as Patrick says in the \u003cem>Confessio.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Either way, without Roman influence, the cuisine of Ireland had its own style. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpbmCqLc0K8\">Regina Sexton\u003c/a>, food and culinary historian at University College Cork, tells us that the local diet was based largely on dairy and grain – especially oats. There were oatcakes, \"more like a hard bread or a cracker,\" and muesli-like mixtures of fruit, nuts, and oats. The thick cooking residue from oats might be made into sowens, \"a type of jelly.\" And oats were often cooked as oatmeals and gruels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a slave,\" says Sexton, gruels \"would be what Patrick ate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barley was mostly for making ale; wheat was reserved for the highest status of bread. So, if you celebrate Patrick the wealthy rather than Patrick the poor, swap your usual soda bread for a soft wheat loaf and add to the bill of fare English salt, imported wine, and more meat than the average Irish native would have experienced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the evidence for what the ancient Irish ate comes from the Brehon Laws, which covered everything from land rents to beekeeping, as well as marriage, divorce, and trespassing --\"all the things you would think would be of concern to agricultural communities,\" says Sexton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not surprisingly, Irish stories and legends make for more interesting reading than Irish laws. Even though they were written mostly in the 8th to 12th centuries, many of these tales throw open a window onto the world of upper-class feasts and foods of an earlier time, explains Ger Killeen, professor of Irish and Celtic literature at Marylhurst University in Portland, Ore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Vision of MacConglinne\u003c/em>, an anonymous parody of religious \"vision\" literature, imagines a castle made of food: \"New butter was the bridge ... bacon the palisade, the door was dry meat, the threshold was bare bread, and cheese curds the sides.\" And fine cream, fresh cheese and aged cheese served as mortar to hold up the house throughout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are only two foods that Patrick actually records eating, says Killeen. In his \u003cem>Confessio\u003c/em> tale of escape from Ireland, Patrick and those who aided him \"manage to survive on wild honey\" and deer, thanks to Patrick's prayers for hunting success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As history tells us, Patrick eventually returned to Ireland as a missionary and the religious figure we celebrate today. For a meal honoring his later years, Killeen suggests something simple: \"wheat bread, some kind of soft cheese, maybe flavored with garlic.\" And salmon, \"a highly esteemed foodstuff.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sexton seconds the salmon, along with other oily fish, and \"eels, trout, apples, hazelnuts, watercress, wild garlic.\" And cabbage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's hard to get away from cabbage, no matter which era or which Patrick you choose to celebrate. But you can always call on his Roman past with a little coriander and dill in the dressing. And whether you swap your stout for a light barley ale or a glass of red Italian Cesanese, trade the corned beef for some estimable salmon, or make a castle out of Cashel blue cheese, Ireland's signature brassica will be at home on any of these menus honoring Ireland's national saint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Anne Bramley is an independent scholar who is the author of Eat Feed Autumn Winter. She writes the \u003ca href=\"http://www.thekitchn.com/the-art-of-fondue-228779\">Food and Ritual column\u003c/a> at The Kitchn.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2016 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The patron saint of Ireland was born to high status in Britain, then stolen away by pirates as a teen. It's a life story with plenty of fodder to cook up an unexpected, historically inspired menu.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1458232660,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":945},"headData":{"title":"Feast Like It's 399: What Would St. Patrick Eat? | KQED","description":"The patron saint of Ireland was born to high status in Britain, then stolen away by pirates as a teen. It's a life story with plenty of fodder to cook up an unexpected, historically inspired menu.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"107752 http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=107752","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2016/03/17/feast-like-its-399-what-would-st-patrick-eat/","disqusTitle":"Feast Like It's 399: What Would St. Patrick Eat?","nprByline":"Anne Bramley, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/author/nprfood/\">NPR Food\u003c/a>","nprImageAgency":"Katherine Du/NPR","nprStoryId":"470730700","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=470730700&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/03/17/470730700/feast-like-its-399-the-maybe-true-culinary-adventures-of-st-patrick?ft=nprml&f=470730700","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Thu, 17 Mar 2016 12:20:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Thu, 17 Mar 2016 11:40:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Thu, 17 Mar 2016 12:20:41 -0400","path":"/bayareabites/107752/feast-like-its-399-what-would-st-patrick-eat","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Today is the day that the Guinness flows freely, tough brisket is transformed into tender corned beef, and we celebrate the Emerald Isle with humble cabbage. This holy trinity of meat, veg, and stout is the communion of St. Patrick's Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the history of that meal is relatively short, going back mainly to trade and immigration in the 18th and 19th centuries. Want to feast like St. Patrick would have celebrated more than 1,600 years ago? Let's party like it's 399.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, it's important to remember that Patrick wasn't born in Ireland, but in late 4th-century Britain, a period of great change. Anglo-Saxons from Germany, Denmark and The Netherlands were just moving in and beginning to push out the Mediterranean culture and cuisine of the Romans, who had occupied Britain for several centuries. That means a lot of different culinary influences from which to choose your menu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrick grew up in \"a high status, slave-owning Romano-British family,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.caitlingreen.org/\">Caitlin Green\u003c/a> of the University of Cambridge's Institute for Continuing Education. \"We would clearly expect him to have a very late Roman aristocratic lifestyle in his youth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Think Mediterranean and French wines \"imported on a large scale,\" says Mark McKerracher, an archaeologist who blogs about Anglo-Saxon agriculture at \u003ca href=\"http://farmingunearthed.wordpress.com/\">Farming Unearthed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coriander and dill, McKerracher says, were other \"Roman innovations\" that gave dishes Mediterranean flair, as were peas and early relatives of the broad bean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Green, game was also moving onto the menu. \"Very little of this was eaten in the Romano-British period in general,\" she says. \"But there is evidence for a greater consumption of venison and wild birds in the very late/post-Roman era.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a teenager, Patrick ended up in Ireland, one of the few European outposts Roman influence failed to reach. The popular story, told by Patrick in his \u003cem>Confessio\u003c/em>, is that he was stolen away by pirates and sold into slavery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Cambridge University's \u003ca href=\"https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/was-st-patrick-a-slave-trading-roman-official-who-fled-to-ireland\">Roy Flechner\u003c/a> has suggested that Patrick was running away from the expectation that he would take over his father's official duties — and even that Patrick might have been the slave trader, rather than the slave. That changes whether we think he dined like an expat with a mild case of \u003cem>affluenza\u003c/em> or subsisted like an enslaved herdsman, as Patrick says in the \u003cem>Confessio.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Either way, without Roman influence, the cuisine of Ireland had its own style. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpbmCqLc0K8\">Regina Sexton\u003c/a>, food and culinary historian at University College Cork, tells us that the local diet was based largely on dairy and grain – especially oats. There were oatcakes, \"more like a hard bread or a cracker,\" and muesli-like mixtures of fruit, nuts, and oats. The thick cooking residue from oats might be made into sowens, \"a type of jelly.\" And oats were often cooked as oatmeals and gruels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a slave,\" says Sexton, gruels \"would be what Patrick ate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barley was mostly for making ale; wheat was reserved for the highest status of bread. So, if you celebrate Patrick the wealthy rather than Patrick the poor, swap your usual soda bread for a soft wheat loaf and add to the bill of fare English salt, imported wine, and more meat than the average Irish native would have experienced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the evidence for what the ancient Irish ate comes from the Brehon Laws, which covered everything from land rents to beekeeping, as well as marriage, divorce, and trespassing --\"all the things you would think would be of concern to agricultural communities,\" says Sexton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not surprisingly, Irish stories and legends make for more interesting reading than Irish laws. Even though they were written mostly in the 8th to 12th centuries, many of these tales throw open a window onto the world of upper-class feasts and foods of an earlier time, explains Ger Killeen, professor of Irish and Celtic literature at Marylhurst University in Portland, Ore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Vision of MacConglinne\u003c/em>, an anonymous parody of religious \"vision\" literature, imagines a castle made of food: \"New butter was the bridge ... bacon the palisade, the door was dry meat, the threshold was bare bread, and cheese curds the sides.\" And fine cream, fresh cheese and aged cheese served as mortar to hold up the house throughout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are only two foods that Patrick actually records eating, says Killeen. In his \u003cem>Confessio\u003c/em> tale of escape from Ireland, Patrick and those who aided him \"manage to survive on wild honey\" and deer, thanks to Patrick's prayers for hunting success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As history tells us, Patrick eventually returned to Ireland as a missionary and the religious figure we celebrate today. For a meal honoring his later years, Killeen suggests something simple: \"wheat bread, some kind of soft cheese, maybe flavored with garlic.\" And salmon, \"a highly esteemed foodstuff.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sexton seconds the salmon, along with other oily fish, and \"eels, trout, apples, hazelnuts, watercress, wild garlic.\" And cabbage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's hard to get away from cabbage, no matter which era or which Patrick you choose to celebrate. But you can always call on his Roman past with a little coriander and dill in the dressing. And whether you swap your stout for a light barley ale or a glass of red Italian Cesanese, trade the corned beef for some estimable salmon, or make a castle out of Cashel blue cheese, Ireland's signature brassica will be at home on any of these menus honoring Ireland's national saint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Anne Bramley is an independent scholar who is the author of Eat Feed Autumn Winter. She writes the \u003ca href=\"http://www.thekitchn.com/the-art-of-fondue-228779\">Food and Ritual column\u003c/a> at The Kitchn.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2016 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/107752/feast-like-its-399-what-would-st-patrick-eat","authors":["byline_bayareabites_107752"],"categories":["bayareabites_2090","bayareabites_1763"],"tags":["bayareabites_476","bayareabites_123"],"featImg":"bayareabites_107753","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_107724":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_107724","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"107724","score":null,"sort":[1458167653000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"corned-beef-guinness-and-blaa-the-irish-bread-you-never-knew-about","title":"Corned Beef, Guinness And ... Blaa? The Irish Bread You Never Knew About","publishDate":1458167653,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>Want to mark this St. Patrick's Day with something beyond the usual corned beef and cabbage (which \u003ca href=\"http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/is-corned-beef-really-irish-2839144/?no-ist\" target=\"_blank\">aren't so traditionally\u003c/a> Irish anyway)? Why not mix up your menu with a tasty tray of blaas?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not blaa as in boring – blaa is actually the name of a treasured bread from the town of Waterford, Ireland, where up to 12,000 fresh blaas are eaten daily. This soft, doughy white roll – with either a soft or crusty top — has a chewy texture that makes it a perfect vehicle for butter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Be assured, the blaa isn't any old bread: The European Union considered it special enough to award it \"\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_indications_and_traditional_specialities_in_the_European_Union#Protected_geographical_indication_.28PGI.29\" target=\"_blank\">Protected Geographical Indication\u003c/a>\" status in 2013. That means only rolls baked in Waterford can bear the name \"blaa\" – in the same way that only bubbly from Champagne can bear that region's name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This delicacy is a bit of an endangered species. Only four bakeries in Waterford produce the official blaa: Walsh's, Kilmacow Bakery, Barron's, and \u003ca href=\"http://hickeysbakery.ie\" target=\"_blank\">Hickey's\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Each of the four bakeries make blaas in a slightly different way,\" explains third-generation baker Brian Hickey, whose family bakery has been selling blaas for more than 50 years. \u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And each bakery commands fierce allegiance. Hickey says Waterford residents \"rarely drift from one bakery to another - a bit like following football teams. You could get into a row with your neighbor over who makes a better blaa!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaa has been delighting the denizens of Waterford for centuries. According to folklore, the blaa dates back to the 17\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> century, when the Huguenots landed in Ireland. These French Protestants were fleeing religious persecution and sought refuge in Ireland and other European countries. It's believed a Huguenot baker baked the first blaa to use leftover dough, or \u003cem>blaad. \u003c/em>(Other stories have blaa deriving from the French \u003cem>blanc\u003c/em>, for white.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107730\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/sausage-blaa.jpg\" alt=\"Fillings like this sausage are typically added after the blaa is taken out of the oven — as soon as possible!\" width=\"700\" height=\"465\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107730\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/sausage-blaa.jpg 700w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/sausage-blaa-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fillings like this sausage are typically added after the blaa is taken out of the oven — as soon as possible! \u003ccite>(Elizabeth Rushe for NPR )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What distinguishes the blaa from your average roll is an abundant use of flour throughout the the baking process. After the first and second rise, the dough is turned out onto a flour surface. Personally, I flour the dough generously in order to easily handle it while shaping the 24 blaa dough buns. The blaas receive another sifting of flour when they are left to rise in their bun shapes, and floured once more before hitting the oven. The plentiful flouring at each of these stages gives the blaa a distinctive floury finish - and also serves as a protection during baking. Fillings are typically added after the blaa is taken out of the oven - as soon as possible!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news for the clumsy baker is that blaas are not typically uniform in shape and size. While the recipe for the blaa is quite simple, the key ingredient is patience: Blaa dough is left to rise for a total of up to four and a half hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is it really blaa if you eat it outside of Waterford? That's a crumb of contention. Some of the Waterford bakeries distribute their frozen blaas internationally, but Hickey's bakery will only sell to local stores. Because there are no preservatives added to the blaa, it's ideally eaten on the day its baked. Martin O'Dwyer, a consultant chef who previously ran a restaurant in Waterford, and now runs a \u003ca href=\"http://www.lepresbytere.net/\" target=\"_blank\">B&B\u003c/a> in France, remembers the reverence with which his former coworkers in Waterford approached the morning blaa break at half-past ten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A trusted member of staff would be sent to the bakery for the blaas — not a moment sooner, or they might be given blaas from the first baking rather than the second bake,\" O'Dwyer says. \"These, after two hours were deemed 'stale.'\u003cstrong> \"\u003c/strong>Then there would be the various personal preferences: Well done, soft, floury or \"not too brown,\" he recalls. \"They were eaten then mainly just with lots of salted Irish butter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biddy White Lennon, a founding member of the Irish Food Writers guild and former judge on the reality cooking television show \u003cem>The Great Irish Bake Off\u003c/em>, included the blaa in her \u003cem>Best of Irish Baking\u003c/em> book. Biddy initially became a household name in Ireland as an actress — she remembers how blaas fuelled her early career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I fell in love with blaas in my acting days,\" she tells us via email.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\"\u003c/strong>Waterford's Theatre Royal was a first-class touring date. Blaas fresh from an artisan bakery — filled with crisp smoked bacon or fresh mackeral — was a popular breakfast treat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Born and raised in Ireland, Elizabeth Rushe is a writer and photographer now based in Berlin, where she hosts the Berlin Belly food podcast. \u003cbr>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>Biddy White Lennon's Blaa Recipe\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Makes 24 rolls\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ingredients\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3 lbs bread flour\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2 oz fresh yeast or 1 oz active dried yeast\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 tsp sugar\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 1/4 cups warm water\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2 1/4 pints water\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2 tsp salt\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Instructions\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1. Dissolve yeast and sugar in warm water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. When the yeast is frothy and the sugar is dissolved, add to the flour with salt and remaining water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. Knead for five minutes until smooth and elastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4. Place dough into a large oiled bowl and covered with oiled cling wrap. Let it prove in a warm place until doubled in size (about 1 hour).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>5. Knock it down and let it prove again in the same way for half an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>6. Knock down again gently and turn it out onto a clean floured board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>7. Divide dough into 24 even sized round, slightly flattened buns (approx 3 oz. each) and place on a lightly floured baking tray. Allow to rise at room temperature until double in size - 2 to 3 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>7. Heat oven to 425 Fahrenheit. Dust rolls lightly with all-purpose flour and bake for about 15 minutes, or until they sound hollow when tapped on the bottom. Ideally, rolls should not be too brown on top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>From Biddy White Lennon's \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Best-Irish-Home-Baking/dp/0862788072/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1457665942&sr=8-1&keywords=biddy+white+lennon+best+of+irish\" target=\"_blank\">Best of Irish Baking\u003c/a>\u003cem>, published by O'Brien Press. Reprinted by permission.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2016 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"For an authentically Irish St. Patrick's Day meal, why not give the blaa a try? 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Why not mix up your menu with a tasty tray of blaas?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not blaa as in boring – blaa is actually the name of a treasured bread from the town of Waterford, Ireland, where up to 12,000 fresh blaas are eaten daily. This soft, doughy white roll – with either a soft or crusty top — has a chewy texture that makes it a perfect vehicle for butter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Be assured, the blaa isn't any old bread: The European Union considered it special enough to award it \"\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_indications_and_traditional_specialities_in_the_European_Union#Protected_geographical_indication_.28PGI.29\" target=\"_blank\">Protected Geographical Indication\u003c/a>\" status in 2013. That means only rolls baked in Waterford can bear the name \"blaa\" – in the same way that only bubbly from Champagne can bear that region's name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This delicacy is a bit of an endangered species. Only four bakeries in Waterford produce the official blaa: Walsh's, Kilmacow Bakery, Barron's, and \u003ca href=\"http://hickeysbakery.ie\" target=\"_blank\">Hickey's\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Each of the four bakeries make blaas in a slightly different way,\" explains third-generation baker Brian Hickey, whose family bakery has been selling blaas for more than 50 years. \u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And each bakery commands fierce allegiance. Hickey says Waterford residents \"rarely drift from one bakery to another - a bit like following football teams. You could get into a row with your neighbor over who makes a better blaa!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaa has been delighting the denizens of Waterford for centuries. According to folklore, the blaa dates back to the 17\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> century, when the Huguenots landed in Ireland. These French Protestants were fleeing religious persecution and sought refuge in Ireland and other European countries. It's believed a Huguenot baker baked the first blaa to use leftover dough, or \u003cem>blaad. \u003c/em>(Other stories have blaa deriving from the French \u003cem>blanc\u003c/em>, for white.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107730\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/sausage-blaa.jpg\" alt=\"Fillings like this sausage are typically added after the blaa is taken out of the oven — as soon as possible!\" width=\"700\" height=\"465\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107730\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/sausage-blaa.jpg 700w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/sausage-blaa-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fillings like this sausage are typically added after the blaa is taken out of the oven — as soon as possible! \u003ccite>(Elizabeth Rushe for NPR )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What distinguishes the blaa from your average roll is an abundant use of flour throughout the the baking process. After the first and second rise, the dough is turned out onto a flour surface. Personally, I flour the dough generously in order to easily handle it while shaping the 24 blaa dough buns. The blaas receive another sifting of flour when they are left to rise in their bun shapes, and floured once more before hitting the oven. The plentiful flouring at each of these stages gives the blaa a distinctive floury finish - and also serves as a protection during baking. Fillings are typically added after the blaa is taken out of the oven - as soon as possible!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news for the clumsy baker is that blaas are not typically uniform in shape and size. While the recipe for the blaa is quite simple, the key ingredient is patience: Blaa dough is left to rise for a total of up to four and a half hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is it really blaa if you eat it outside of Waterford? That's a crumb of contention. Some of the Waterford bakeries distribute their frozen blaas internationally, but Hickey's bakery will only sell to local stores. Because there are no preservatives added to the blaa, it's ideally eaten on the day its baked. Martin O'Dwyer, a consultant chef who previously ran a restaurant in Waterford, and now runs a \u003ca href=\"http://www.lepresbytere.net/\" target=\"_blank\">B&B\u003c/a> in France, remembers the reverence with which his former coworkers in Waterford approached the morning blaa break at half-past ten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A trusted member of staff would be sent to the bakery for the blaas — not a moment sooner, or they might be given blaas from the first baking rather than the second bake,\" O'Dwyer says. \"These, after two hours were deemed 'stale.'\u003cstrong> \"\u003c/strong>Then there would be the various personal preferences: Well done, soft, floury or \"not too brown,\" he recalls. \"They were eaten then mainly just with lots of salted Irish butter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biddy White Lennon, a founding member of the Irish Food Writers guild and former judge on the reality cooking television show \u003cem>The Great Irish Bake Off\u003c/em>, included the blaa in her \u003cem>Best of Irish Baking\u003c/em> book. Biddy initially became a household name in Ireland as an actress — she remembers how blaas fuelled her early career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I fell in love with blaas in my acting days,\" she tells us via email.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\"\u003c/strong>Waterford's Theatre Royal was a first-class touring date. Blaas fresh from an artisan bakery — filled with crisp smoked bacon or fresh mackeral — was a popular breakfast treat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Born and raised in Ireland, Elizabeth Rushe is a writer and photographer now based in Berlin, where she hosts the Berlin Belly food podcast. \u003cbr>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>Biddy White Lennon's Blaa Recipe\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Makes 24 rolls\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ingredients\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3 lbs bread flour\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2 oz fresh yeast or 1 oz active dried yeast\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 tsp sugar\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 1/4 cups warm water\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2 1/4 pints water\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2 tsp salt\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Instructions\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1. Dissolve yeast and sugar in warm water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. When the yeast is frothy and the sugar is dissolved, add to the flour with salt and remaining water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. Knead for five minutes until smooth and elastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4. Place dough into a large oiled bowl and covered with oiled cling wrap. Let it prove in a warm place until doubled in size (about 1 hour).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>5. Knock it down and let it prove again in the same way for half an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>6. Knock down again gently and turn it out onto a clean floured board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>7. Divide dough into 24 even sized round, slightly flattened buns (approx 3 oz. each) and place on a lightly floured baking tray. Allow to rise at room temperature until double in size - 2 to 3 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>7. Heat oven to 425 Fahrenheit. Dust rolls lightly with all-purpose flour and bake for about 15 minutes, or until they sound hollow when tapped on the bottom. Ideally, rolls should not be too brown on top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>From Biddy White Lennon's \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Best-Irish-Home-Baking/dp/0862788072/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1457665942&sr=8-1&keywords=biddy+white+lennon+best+of+irish\" target=\"_blank\">Best of Irish Baking\u003c/a>\u003cem>, published by O'Brien Press. Reprinted by permission.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2016 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/107724/corned-beef-guinness-and-blaa-the-irish-bread-you-never-knew-about","authors":["byline_bayareabites_107724"],"categories":["bayareabites_1516","bayareabites_12550","bayareabites_1763","bayareabites_12"],"tags":["bayareabites_15355","bayareabites_59","bayareabites_476","bayareabites_123"],"featImg":"bayareabites_107725","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_94059":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_94059","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"94059","score":null,"sort":[1426622429000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"to-eat-authentically-irish-this-st-patricks-day-go-for-the-butter","title":"To Eat Authentically Irish This St. Patrick's Day, Go For The Butter","publishDate":1426622429,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94060\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1197px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/walllowres-1e39a90bfdb3e3fa2214fde62b88be441d4b1d74.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-94060\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/walllowres-1e39a90bfdb3e3fa2214fde62b88be441d4b1d74.jpg\" alt=\"Butter labels from Irish creameries operating in the 1970s. Photo: Roland Paschhoff/Cork Butter Museum\" width=\"1197\" height=\"897\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/walllowres-1e39a90bfdb3e3fa2214fde62b88be441d4b1d74.jpg 1197w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/walllowres-1e39a90bfdb3e3fa2214fde62b88be441d4b1d74-800x599.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/walllowres-1e39a90bfdb3e3fa2214fde62b88be441d4b1d74-1180x884.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/walllowres-1e39a90bfdb3e3fa2214fde62b88be441d4b1d74-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/walllowres-1e39a90bfdb3e3fa2214fde62b88be441d4b1d74-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1197px) 100vw, 1197px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Butter labels from Irish creameries operating in the 1970s. Photo: Roland Paschhoff/Cork Butter Museum\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By Deena Prichep, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/03/17/393565373/to-eat-authentically-irish-this-st-patrick-s-day-go-for-the-butter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (3/17/15)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As scholarly buzzkills have long told us, \u003ca href=\"http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/is-corned-beef-really-irish-2839144/?no-ist\">corned beef isn't really Irish\u003c/a>. So what to do if you want a taste of the Emerald Isle on St. Patrick's Day? Instead of green, maybe look for yellow — a pat of Irish butter. Although most Americans are familiar with images of Ireland's rolling green hills, few realize that those hills are the secret to a deliciously buttery empire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It goes back to the Emerald Isle,\" explains \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ifj_pat\">Pat O'Keeffe\u003c/a>, deputy editor of \u003ca href=\"http://www.farmersjournal.ie/\">Irish Farmers Journal\u003c/a>. \"The green land is our competitive advantage. Those rolling green hills are great for growing grass. You need frequent and regular rainfall, and we've got plenty of that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The actual Irish cows themselves aren't that different from their American counterparts — in both countries, over 90 percent of milkers are Holstein-Friesians, those iconic black-and-whites. What it comes down to is what the cows are eating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Irish cows graze on those temperate hills from March to October, and are only milked during those months. (A small number — O'Keeffe estimates 10 percent — are milked year-round for drinking, or fluid, milk, but butter's the real business.) Grass-fed milk produces a rich butter, yellow with natural beta carotene. The polyunsaturated fats in fresh grass also make for pats that are softer than those from hay or grain — all the better for spreading across your scone. Like most European dairy, Irish cream also has a higher butterfat content, creating soft butter with a richer mouthfeel. And the end result?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94061\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/96849468_edit_custom-ee85200a375e93a387fdf1379927d79bba5071c4-e1426622183884.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-94061\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/96849468_edit_custom-ee85200a375e93a387fdf1379927d79bba5071c4-e1426622183884.jpg\" alt=\"Holstein-Friesian dairy cows make their way towards pasture in County Cavan, Ireland. Irish cows graze on the country's rolling green hills from March to October, and most are only milked during those months. Photo: Tom Stoddart/Getty Images\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/96849468_edit_custom-ee85200a375e93a387fdf1379927d79bba5071c4-e1426622183884.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/96849468_edit_custom-ee85200a375e93a387fdf1379927d79bba5071c4-e1426622183884-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/96849468_edit_custom-ee85200a375e93a387fdf1379927d79bba5071c4-e1426622183884-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/96849468_edit_custom-ee85200a375e93a387fdf1379927d79bba5071c4-e1426622183884-1440x959.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/96849468_edit_custom-ee85200a375e93a387fdf1379927d79bba5071c4-e1426622183884-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/96849468_edit_custom-ee85200a375e93a387fdf1379927d79bba5071c4-e1426622183884-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/96849468_edit_custom-ee85200a375e93a387fdf1379927d79bba5071c4-e1426622183884-320x213.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Holstein-Friesian dairy cows make their way towards pasture in County Cavan, Ireland. Irish cows graze on the country's rolling green hills from March to October, and most are only milked during those months. Photo: Tom Stoddart/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I have to be careful for an American audience,\" Pat O'Keeffe hedges for a diplomatic moment, \"but we'd say it's [like the difference between] chalk and cheese.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And those feelings of nostalgia (and unabashed superiority) about Irish butter can run deep, even after leaving Ireland. When Dublin-born Lisa Jacobs' family emigrated to the United States, her parents continued to seek out Irish butter. And when she dropped out of law school to start making cheese in the similarly green-and-rainy Pacific Northwest, her father not-so-gently suggested that \u003ca href=\"http://www.jacobscreamery.com/\">Jacobs Creamery\u003c/a> make him some good, Irish-style butter. Jacobs even smuggled some grass and wildflower seed to cultivate the cows' fields, seeing if she could capture some of that Irish \u003cem>terroir\u003c/em> in her hand-churned product.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But far before this modern evangelism, Irish butter had its fans. Ancient stashes of butter dating back \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-27143838\">1,000 years\u003c/a> — and up to \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcnews.com/id/32630695/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/-year-old-butter-discovered-ireland/\">3,000 years\u003c/a> — are routinely dug out of the Irish peat bogs. Scholars speculate that the butter was either a high-value offering, buried ritualistically, or else a foodstuff stored in the bog as a primitive refrigeration technique. (Either way, the phenomenon is given the irresistible term \"bog butter.\") Although this millennia-old butter isn't quite ready for toast, butter \u003cem>is\u003c/em> a long-lived product. Which means it can be shipped — and it was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94062\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ci-12_custom-bb5b80835c39673fa46e6cd7b5017d50c64bfa22-e1426622272507.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-94062\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ci-12_custom-bb5b80835c39673fa46e6cd7b5017d50c64bfa22-e1426622272507.jpg\" alt=\"Butter samples from the first quarter of the 20th Century in Ireland. Photo: Cork Butter Museum\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1152\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ci-12_custom-bb5b80835c39673fa46e6cd7b5017d50c64bfa22-e1426622272507.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ci-12_custom-bb5b80835c39673fa46e6cd7b5017d50c64bfa22-e1426622272507-400x240.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ci-12_custom-bb5b80835c39673fa46e6cd7b5017d50c64bfa22-e1426622272507-800x480.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ci-12_custom-bb5b80835c39673fa46e6cd7b5017d50c64bfa22-e1426622272507-1440x864.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ci-12_custom-bb5b80835c39673fa46e6cd7b5017d50c64bfa22-e1426622272507-1180x708.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ci-12_custom-bb5b80835c39673fa46e6cd7b5017d50c64bfa22-e1426622272507-768x461.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ci-12_custom-bb5b80835c39673fa46e6cd7b5017d50c64bfa22-e1426622272507-320x192.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Butter samples from the first quarter of the 20th Century in Ireland. Photo: Cork Butter Museum\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Cork butter was the first global food brand,\" explains Peter Foynes, director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.corkbutter.museum/\">Cork Butter Museum\u003c/a> (and yes, there is a butter museum).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cork Butter Exchange was established in the late 18th century, and in its day it was the largest butter market in the world. Irish butter was tied to British expansion, as buckets made their way onto ships loaded for the sugar routes, or crossed the Atlantic to feed troops fighting to quell the American Revolution. Hundreds of thousands of casks left Ireland every year, heading everywhere from Australia to Brazil, France to the West Indies. Miles of \"butter roads\" helped even remote rural farmers bring their butter into the global marketplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after this peak — Foynes puts it in the 1870s — Irish butter production began to trail off, due to a number of factors. Colonies had steadily been establishing their own agriculture, rendering Irish exports less important. But the biggest blow came in 1879, with the mechanical separator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94063\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ci-30_custom-9efe421ba02886463e333f782c7e1d1ed2152e23-e1426622323144.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-94063\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ci-30_custom-9efe421ba02886463e333f782c7e1d1ed2152e23-e1426622323144.jpg\" alt=\"Butter is inspected inside a creamery in Dublin, Ireland, during the first quarter of the 20th century. Photo: Cork Butter Museum\" width=\"700\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ci-30_custom-9efe421ba02886463e333f782c7e1d1ed2152e23-e1426622323144.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ci-30_custom-9efe421ba02886463e333f782c7e1d1ed2152e23-e1426622323144-400x468.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ci-30_custom-9efe421ba02886463e333f782c7e1d1ed2152e23-e1426622323144-800x935.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ci-30_custom-9efe421ba02886463e333f782c7e1d1ed2152e23-e1426622323144-1440x1684.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ci-30_custom-9efe421ba02886463e333f782c7e1d1ed2152e23-e1426622323144-1180x1380.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ci-30_custom-9efe421ba02886463e333f782c7e1d1ed2152e23-e1426622323144-768x898.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ci-30_custom-9efe421ba02886463e333f782c7e1d1ed2152e23-e1426622323144-320x374.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Butter is inspected inside a creamery in Dublin, Ireland, during the first quarter of the 20th century. Photo: Cork Butter Museum\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even as farmers mechanized the butter-churning process, they had long been hampered by separating — patiently waiting for the to-be-churned cream to rise to the top (a process that takes 24 to 36 hours, depending upon the temperature). With the centrifuge-like mechanical separator, that wait time is eliminated. Unfortunately, Irish farmers were late adopters; by the time they mechanized, the industry was 20 years behind. By the early 20th century, the Cork Butter Market had closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But luckily for lovers of good Irish butter, its grass-fed richness has made a comeback. Farms banded together to form the \u003ca href=\"http://kerrygoldusa.com/heritage/irish-dairy-board/\">Irish Dairy Board\u003c/a> in 1961, which developed the popular Kerrygold Irish butter. (The company says it's now the No. 4 butter in the U.S.) And the country's EU membership in the following decades brought with it milk subsidies, laying the bedrock for increased dairy production (and even overproduction, leading to established quotas). Later fears of saturated fats hit the Irish butter industry, as they did all dairy, but \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/02/12/275376259/the-full-fat-paradox-whole-milk-may-keep-us-lean\">recent data\u003c/a> seems to be moving consumers beyond those margarine moments, and back to the full, sunny swipe of butter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of the science — or alleged science — has changed,\" notes O'Keeffe. But like a good Irishman, he was never swayed. \"It was always a good product. Butter today is still as good as it was.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with the 30-year-old EU dairy quotas set to expire on April 1, this product could be on the brink of a new buttery era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"From 3,000-year-old peat bogs to 19th-century Brazil to modern foodies, the love of Irish butter has spread far. The secret to Ireland's deliciously rich, creamy butter is in its rolling green hills.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1554250586,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":1026},"headData":{"title":"To Eat Authentically Irish This St. Patrick's Day, Go For The Butter | KQED","description":"From 3,000-year-old peat bogs to 19th-century Brazil to modern foodies, the love of Irish butter has spread far. The secret to Ireland's deliciously rich, creamy butter is in its rolling green hills.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"94059 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=94059","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2015/03/17/to-eat-authentically-irish-this-st-patricks-day-go-for-the-butter/","disqusTitle":"To Eat Authentically Irish This St. Patrick's Day, Go For The Butter","nprByline":"Deena Prichep","nprStoryId":"393565373","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=393565373&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/03/17/393565373/to-eat-authentically-irish-this-st-patrick-s-day-go-for-the-butter?ft=nprml&f=393565373","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:12:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 17 Mar 2015 13:47:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:12:58 -0400","path":"/bayareabites/94059/to-eat-authentically-irish-this-st-patricks-day-go-for-the-butter","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94060\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1197px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/walllowres-1e39a90bfdb3e3fa2214fde62b88be441d4b1d74.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-94060\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/walllowres-1e39a90bfdb3e3fa2214fde62b88be441d4b1d74.jpg\" alt=\"Butter labels from Irish creameries operating in the 1970s. Photo: Roland Paschhoff/Cork Butter Museum\" width=\"1197\" height=\"897\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/walllowres-1e39a90bfdb3e3fa2214fde62b88be441d4b1d74.jpg 1197w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/walllowres-1e39a90bfdb3e3fa2214fde62b88be441d4b1d74-800x599.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/walllowres-1e39a90bfdb3e3fa2214fde62b88be441d4b1d74-1180x884.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/walllowres-1e39a90bfdb3e3fa2214fde62b88be441d4b1d74-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/walllowres-1e39a90bfdb3e3fa2214fde62b88be441d4b1d74-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1197px) 100vw, 1197px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Butter labels from Irish creameries operating in the 1970s. Photo: Roland Paschhoff/Cork Butter Museum\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By Deena Prichep, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/03/17/393565373/to-eat-authentically-irish-this-st-patrick-s-day-go-for-the-butter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (3/17/15)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As scholarly buzzkills have long told us, \u003ca href=\"http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/is-corned-beef-really-irish-2839144/?no-ist\">corned beef isn't really Irish\u003c/a>. So what to do if you want a taste of the Emerald Isle on St. Patrick's Day? Instead of green, maybe look for yellow — a pat of Irish butter. Although most Americans are familiar with images of Ireland's rolling green hills, few realize that those hills are the secret to a deliciously buttery empire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It goes back to the Emerald Isle,\" explains \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ifj_pat\">Pat O'Keeffe\u003c/a>, deputy editor of \u003ca href=\"http://www.farmersjournal.ie/\">Irish Farmers Journal\u003c/a>. \"The green land is our competitive advantage. Those rolling green hills are great for growing grass. You need frequent and regular rainfall, and we've got plenty of that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The actual Irish cows themselves aren't that different from their American counterparts — in both countries, over 90 percent of milkers are Holstein-Friesians, those iconic black-and-whites. What it comes down to is what the cows are eating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Irish cows graze on those temperate hills from March to October, and are only milked during those months. (A small number — O'Keeffe estimates 10 percent — are milked year-round for drinking, or fluid, milk, but butter's the real business.) Grass-fed milk produces a rich butter, yellow with natural beta carotene. The polyunsaturated fats in fresh grass also make for pats that are softer than those from hay or grain — all the better for spreading across your scone. Like most European dairy, Irish cream also has a higher butterfat content, creating soft butter with a richer mouthfeel. And the end result?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94061\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/96849468_edit_custom-ee85200a375e93a387fdf1379927d79bba5071c4-e1426622183884.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-94061\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/96849468_edit_custom-ee85200a375e93a387fdf1379927d79bba5071c4-e1426622183884.jpg\" alt=\"Holstein-Friesian dairy cows make their way towards pasture in County Cavan, Ireland. Irish cows graze on the country's rolling green hills from March to October, and most are only milked during those months. Photo: Tom Stoddart/Getty Images\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/96849468_edit_custom-ee85200a375e93a387fdf1379927d79bba5071c4-e1426622183884.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/96849468_edit_custom-ee85200a375e93a387fdf1379927d79bba5071c4-e1426622183884-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/96849468_edit_custom-ee85200a375e93a387fdf1379927d79bba5071c4-e1426622183884-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/96849468_edit_custom-ee85200a375e93a387fdf1379927d79bba5071c4-e1426622183884-1440x959.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/96849468_edit_custom-ee85200a375e93a387fdf1379927d79bba5071c4-e1426622183884-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/96849468_edit_custom-ee85200a375e93a387fdf1379927d79bba5071c4-e1426622183884-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/96849468_edit_custom-ee85200a375e93a387fdf1379927d79bba5071c4-e1426622183884-320x213.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Holstein-Friesian dairy cows make their way towards pasture in County Cavan, Ireland. Irish cows graze on the country's rolling green hills from March to October, and most are only milked during those months. Photo: Tom Stoddart/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I have to be careful for an American audience,\" Pat O'Keeffe hedges for a diplomatic moment, \"but we'd say it's [like the difference between] chalk and cheese.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And those feelings of nostalgia (and unabashed superiority) about Irish butter can run deep, even after leaving Ireland. When Dublin-born Lisa Jacobs' family emigrated to the United States, her parents continued to seek out Irish butter. And when she dropped out of law school to start making cheese in the similarly green-and-rainy Pacific Northwest, her father not-so-gently suggested that \u003ca href=\"http://www.jacobscreamery.com/\">Jacobs Creamery\u003c/a> make him some good, Irish-style butter. Jacobs even smuggled some grass and wildflower seed to cultivate the cows' fields, seeing if she could capture some of that Irish \u003cem>terroir\u003c/em> in her hand-churned product.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But far before this modern evangelism, Irish butter had its fans. Ancient stashes of butter dating back \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-27143838\">1,000 years\u003c/a> — and up to \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcnews.com/id/32630695/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/-year-old-butter-discovered-ireland/\">3,000 years\u003c/a> — are routinely dug out of the Irish peat bogs. Scholars speculate that the butter was either a high-value offering, buried ritualistically, or else a foodstuff stored in the bog as a primitive refrigeration technique. (Either way, the phenomenon is given the irresistible term \"bog butter.\") Although this millennia-old butter isn't quite ready for toast, butter \u003cem>is\u003c/em> a long-lived product. Which means it can be shipped — and it was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94062\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ci-12_custom-bb5b80835c39673fa46e6cd7b5017d50c64bfa22-e1426622272507.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-94062\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ci-12_custom-bb5b80835c39673fa46e6cd7b5017d50c64bfa22-e1426622272507.jpg\" alt=\"Butter samples from the first quarter of the 20th Century in Ireland. Photo: Cork Butter Museum\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1152\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ci-12_custom-bb5b80835c39673fa46e6cd7b5017d50c64bfa22-e1426622272507.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ci-12_custom-bb5b80835c39673fa46e6cd7b5017d50c64bfa22-e1426622272507-400x240.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ci-12_custom-bb5b80835c39673fa46e6cd7b5017d50c64bfa22-e1426622272507-800x480.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ci-12_custom-bb5b80835c39673fa46e6cd7b5017d50c64bfa22-e1426622272507-1440x864.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ci-12_custom-bb5b80835c39673fa46e6cd7b5017d50c64bfa22-e1426622272507-1180x708.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ci-12_custom-bb5b80835c39673fa46e6cd7b5017d50c64bfa22-e1426622272507-768x461.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ci-12_custom-bb5b80835c39673fa46e6cd7b5017d50c64bfa22-e1426622272507-320x192.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Butter samples from the first quarter of the 20th Century in Ireland. Photo: Cork Butter Museum\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Cork butter was the first global food brand,\" explains Peter Foynes, director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.corkbutter.museum/\">Cork Butter Museum\u003c/a> (and yes, there is a butter museum).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cork Butter Exchange was established in the late 18th century, and in its day it was the largest butter market in the world. Irish butter was tied to British expansion, as buckets made their way onto ships loaded for the sugar routes, or crossed the Atlantic to feed troops fighting to quell the American Revolution. Hundreds of thousands of casks left Ireland every year, heading everywhere from Australia to Brazil, France to the West Indies. Miles of \"butter roads\" helped even remote rural farmers bring their butter into the global marketplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after this peak — Foynes puts it in the 1870s — Irish butter production began to trail off, due to a number of factors. Colonies had steadily been establishing their own agriculture, rendering Irish exports less important. But the biggest blow came in 1879, with the mechanical separator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94063\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ci-30_custom-9efe421ba02886463e333f782c7e1d1ed2152e23-e1426622323144.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-94063\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ci-30_custom-9efe421ba02886463e333f782c7e1d1ed2152e23-e1426622323144.jpg\" alt=\"Butter is inspected inside a creamery in Dublin, Ireland, during the first quarter of the 20th century. Photo: Cork Butter Museum\" width=\"700\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ci-30_custom-9efe421ba02886463e333f782c7e1d1ed2152e23-e1426622323144.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ci-30_custom-9efe421ba02886463e333f782c7e1d1ed2152e23-e1426622323144-400x468.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ci-30_custom-9efe421ba02886463e333f782c7e1d1ed2152e23-e1426622323144-800x935.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ci-30_custom-9efe421ba02886463e333f782c7e1d1ed2152e23-e1426622323144-1440x1684.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ci-30_custom-9efe421ba02886463e333f782c7e1d1ed2152e23-e1426622323144-1180x1380.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ci-30_custom-9efe421ba02886463e333f782c7e1d1ed2152e23-e1426622323144-768x898.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/ci-30_custom-9efe421ba02886463e333f782c7e1d1ed2152e23-e1426622323144-320x374.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Butter is inspected inside a creamery in Dublin, Ireland, during the first quarter of the 20th century. Photo: Cork Butter Museum\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even as farmers mechanized the butter-churning process, they had long been hampered by separating — patiently waiting for the to-be-churned cream to rise to the top (a process that takes 24 to 36 hours, depending upon the temperature). With the centrifuge-like mechanical separator, that wait time is eliminated. Unfortunately, Irish farmers were late adopters; by the time they mechanized, the industry was 20 years behind. By the early 20th century, the Cork Butter Market had closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But luckily for lovers of good Irish butter, its grass-fed richness has made a comeback. Farms banded together to form the \u003ca href=\"http://kerrygoldusa.com/heritage/irish-dairy-board/\">Irish Dairy Board\u003c/a> in 1961, which developed the popular Kerrygold Irish butter. (The company says it's now the No. 4 butter in the U.S.) And the country's EU membership in the following decades brought with it milk subsidies, laying the bedrock for increased dairy production (and even overproduction, leading to established quotas). Later fears of saturated fats hit the Irish butter industry, as they did all dairy, but \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/02/12/275376259/the-full-fat-paradox-whole-milk-may-keep-us-lean\">recent data\u003c/a> seems to be moving consumers beyond those margarine moments, and back to the full, sunny swipe of butter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of the science — or alleged science — has changed,\" notes O'Keeffe. But like a good Irishman, he was never swayed. \"It was always a good product. Butter today is still as good as it was.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with the 30-year-old EU dairy quotas set to expire on April 1, this product could be on the brink of a new buttery era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/94059/to-eat-authentically-irish-this-st-patricks-day-go-for-the-butter","authors":["byline_bayareabites_94059"],"categories":["bayareabites_2090","bayareabites_1763","bayareabites_10916"],"tags":["bayareabites_1288","bayareabites_16272","bayareabites_123"],"featImg":"bayareabites_94060","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_93948":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_93948","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"93948","score":null,"sort":[1426549656000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"easy-to-make-for-st-patricks-day-irish-soda-bread-with-currants-and-orange-zest","title":"Easy to Make for St. Patrick’s Day: Irish Soda Bread with Currants and Orange Zest","publishDate":1426549656,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Our Top 10 Recipes From 2015 | Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"term":15149,"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94011\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-94011\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final.jpg\" alt=\"Irish-American Soda Bread with Currants and Orange Zest. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-320x213.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Irish-American Soda Bread with Currants and Orange Zest. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>All photos by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/author/wendy-goodfriend/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back when I worked as a professional baker at \u003ca href=\"http://www.lafarine.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">La Farine\u003c/a> in Rockridge, we made magnificent loaves of Irish soda bread--rich with butter, eggs, sugar, and raisins or even chopped dried apricots--which were quickly snapped up (and truly incredible fresh out of the oven).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The version that we made, and that you often see in this country, is more of an American version of the bread, rather than a true representation of what you might actually find in Ireland. Irish soda bread, or “brown soda bread” or “white soda bread,” is traditionally made with only 4 ingredients: flour (white or whole wheat), baking soda (hence the “soda” part of the name), buttermilk, and salt. It is a hearty quick bread--as opposed to a yeasted bread--that was made in cast iron pots and cooked over a fire, eliminating the need for an oven. The whole wheat version was more common, and the white version saved for special occasions. Even more special would be to add an egg to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether you are in America or Ireland, a telltale signature of the loaf is the cross that is cut into the top of the bread before baking. This helps it expand and cook in the thicker middle, but also has religious connotations. The cross part is pretty obvious, but another favorite meaning is that by cutting a cross into the top, it “lets the devil out of the bread.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nowadays you’ll find all sorts of variations: From the more commonplace raisin-studded or caraway seed-scented loaves to those with dark chocolate chunks, multigrain and seeds, or other dried fruits like apricots, figs, and cherries. Here, many recipes include butter, eggs, and sugar to varying degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is one of my favorites. Dense and moist on the inside, crackly on the outside, and lightly sweet...it is the perfect vehicle for a slathering of Irish butter. Baking it in a cast-iron pan make me think it sort of takes it back to its roots. Plus it just looks really cool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94006\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-pan-overhead.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-94006\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-pan-overhead.jpg\" alt=\"Irish-American Soda Bread with Currants and Orange Zest. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-pan-overhead.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-pan-overhead-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-pan-overhead-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-pan-overhead-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-pan-overhead-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-pan-overhead-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-pan-overhead-320x213.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Irish-American Soda Bread with Currants and Orange Zest. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Recipe: Irish-American Soda Bread with Currants and Orange Zest\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Makes 1 large loaf\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ingredients:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>1 lb (3 cups) all-purpose flour, plus 1 tbsp\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>5 oz (1 cup) whole wheat flour\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1/3 cup sugar\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1 tsp baking soda\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1 1/2 tsp kosher salt\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>6 tbsp cold unsalted butter, diced\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2 cups cold buttermilk, shaken\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1 large egg, lightly beaten\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cli>Finely grated zest of 1 orange\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1 cup dried currants\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"slideshow\" link=\"file\" size=\"full\" ids=\"93995,94019,94015,94017,94014,93996,94016,94001,93999,93997,94000,93998,94024,94018,94005,94002,94004\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Instructions:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>Position the rack in the middle and preheat the oven to 375F. Generously butter a 10-inch cast-iron skillet with 2- to 2 1/2-inch-high sides (you can also bake it on a baking sheet, but it will flatten more).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In a bowl, whisk together the 3 cups all-purpose flour, wheat flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt. Sprinkle the butter over the top and cut in with a pastry cutter or 2 knives until the mixture looks like coarse breadcrumbs.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In another bowl or container, whisk together the buttermilk, egg, and orange zest. Add to the dough, stirring with a wooden spoon just until well incorporated. Combine the currants with the 1 tablespoon of flour and stir into the dough. It will be sticky.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dump the dough onto a well-floured board and knead it a few times into a round loaf. Place the loaf into the prepared skillet and cut an \"X\" into the top of the bread with a serrated knife. Bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour, or until a toothpick comes out clean. When you tap the loaf, it will have a hollow sound.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes, then remove it from the pan, and let cool on the rack. Serve warm or at room temperature with plenty of salted Irish butter.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94022\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-slices2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-94022\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-slices2.jpg\" alt=\"Sliced and buttered Irish-American Soda Bread with Currants and Orange Zest. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-slices2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-slices2-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-slices2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-slices2-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-slices2-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-slices2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-slices2-320x213.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sliced and buttered Irish-American Soda Bread with Currants and Orange Zest. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"This large, fragrant loaf--studded with currants and zesty orange--will feed plenty, and is perfect for a St. Patrick’s Day Brunch. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1554249985,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":true,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":721},"headData":{"title":"Easy to Make for St. Patrick’s Day: Irish Soda Bread with Currants and Orange Zest | KQED","description":"This large, fragrant loaf--studded with currants and zesty orange--will feed plenty, and is perfect for a St. Patrick’s Day Brunch. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"93948 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=93948","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2015/03/16/easy-to-make-for-st-patricks-day-irish-soda-bread-with-currants-and-orange-zest/","disqusTitle":"Easy to Make for St. Patrick’s Day: Irish Soda Bread with Currants and Orange Zest","path":"/bayareabites/93948/easy-to-make-for-st-patricks-day-irish-soda-bread-with-currants-and-orange-zest","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94011\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-94011\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final.jpg\" alt=\"Irish-American Soda Bread with Currants and Orange Zest. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-320x213.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Irish-American Soda Bread with Currants and Orange Zest. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>All photos by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/author/wendy-goodfriend/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back when I worked as a professional baker at \u003ca href=\"http://www.lafarine.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">La Farine\u003c/a> in Rockridge, we made magnificent loaves of Irish soda bread--rich with butter, eggs, sugar, and raisins or even chopped dried apricots--which were quickly snapped up (and truly incredible fresh out of the oven).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The version that we made, and that you often see in this country, is more of an American version of the bread, rather than a true representation of what you might actually find in Ireland. Irish soda bread, or “brown soda bread” or “white soda bread,” is traditionally made with only 4 ingredients: flour (white or whole wheat), baking soda (hence the “soda” part of the name), buttermilk, and salt. It is a hearty quick bread--as opposed to a yeasted bread--that was made in cast iron pots and cooked over a fire, eliminating the need for an oven. The whole wheat version was more common, and the white version saved for special occasions. Even more special would be to add an egg to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether you are in America or Ireland, a telltale signature of the loaf is the cross that is cut into the top of the bread before baking. This helps it expand and cook in the thicker middle, but also has religious connotations. The cross part is pretty obvious, but another favorite meaning is that by cutting a cross into the top, it “lets the devil out of the bread.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nowadays you’ll find all sorts of variations: From the more commonplace raisin-studded or caraway seed-scented loaves to those with dark chocolate chunks, multigrain and seeds, or other dried fruits like apricots, figs, and cherries. Here, many recipes include butter, eggs, and sugar to varying degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is one of my favorites. Dense and moist on the inside, crackly on the outside, and lightly sweet...it is the perfect vehicle for a slathering of Irish butter. Baking it in a cast-iron pan make me think it sort of takes it back to its roots. Plus it just looks really cool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94006\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-pan-overhead.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-94006\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-pan-overhead.jpg\" alt=\"Irish-American Soda Bread with Currants and Orange Zest. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-pan-overhead.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-pan-overhead-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-pan-overhead-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-pan-overhead-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-pan-overhead-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-pan-overhead-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-pan-overhead-320x213.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Irish-American Soda Bread with Currants and Orange Zest. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Recipe: Irish-American Soda Bread with Currants and Orange Zest\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Makes 1 large loaf\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ingredients:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>1 lb (3 cups) all-purpose flour, plus 1 tbsp\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>5 oz (1 cup) whole wheat flour\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1/3 cup sugar\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1 tsp baking soda\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1 1/2 tsp kosher salt\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>6 tbsp cold unsalted butter, diced\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2 cups cold buttermilk, shaken\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1 large egg, lightly beaten\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cli>Finely grated zest of 1 orange\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1 cup dried currants\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"gallery","attributes":{"named":{"type":"slideshow","link":"file","size":"full","ids":"93995,94019,94015,94017,94014,93996,94016,94001,93999,93997,94000,93998,94024,94018,94005,94002,94004","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Instructions:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>Position the rack in the middle and preheat the oven to 375F. Generously butter a 10-inch cast-iron skillet with 2- to 2 1/2-inch-high sides (you can also bake it on a baking sheet, but it will flatten more).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In a bowl, whisk together the 3 cups all-purpose flour, wheat flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt. Sprinkle the butter over the top and cut in with a pastry cutter or 2 knives until the mixture looks like coarse breadcrumbs.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In another bowl or container, whisk together the buttermilk, egg, and orange zest. Add to the dough, stirring with a wooden spoon just until well incorporated. Combine the currants with the 1 tablespoon of flour and stir into the dough. It will be sticky.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dump the dough onto a well-floured board and knead it a few times into a round loaf. Place the loaf into the prepared skillet and cut an \"X\" into the top of the bread with a serrated knife. Bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour, or until a toothpick comes out clean. When you tap the loaf, it will have a hollow sound.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes, then remove it from the pan, and let cool on the rack. Serve warm or at room temperature with plenty of salted Irish butter.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94022\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-slices2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-94022\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-slices2.jpg\" alt=\"Sliced and buttered Irish-American Soda Bread with Currants and Orange Zest. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-slices2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-slices2-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-slices2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-slices2-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-slices2-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-slices2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/irish-soda-bread-final-slices2-320x213.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sliced and buttered Irish-American Soda Bread with Currants and Orange Zest. 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Photo: Ro Jo Images/iStockphoto\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" class=\"size-large wp-image-79165\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green cupcakes may mean party time in America, but in Ireland, emerald-tinged edibles harken back to a desperate past. Photo: Ro Jo Images/iStockphoto\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Maria Godoy, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/03/17/290259538/the-dark-history-of-green-food-on-st-patricks-day\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (3/17/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green food may mean party time in America, where St. Patrick's Day has long been an excuse to break out the food dye. But in Ireland, where the Irish celebrate their patron saint on March 17, green food has bitter connotations that recall the nation's darkest chapter, says historian \u003ca href=\"http://www.users.drew.edu/ckinealy/\">Christine Kinealy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason, Kinealy explains, is the Irish potato famine of the 1840s, which forced so many Irish to flee mass starvation in their homeland in search of better times in America and elsewhere. Those who stayed behind turned to desperate measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People were so deprived of food that they resorted to eating grass,\" Kinealy tells The Salt. \"In Irish folk memory, they talk about people's mouths being green as they died.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least a million Irish died in the span of six years, says Kinealy, the founding director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.quinnipiac.edu/institutes-and-centers/irelands-great-hunger-institute/\">Ireland's Great Hunger Institute\u003c/a> at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut. Which is why, for an Irishwoman like Kinealy, who hails from Dublin and County Mayo, the sight of green-tinged edibles intended as a joyous nod to Irish history can be jolting, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Before I came to America, I'd never seen a green bagel.\" She says. \"For Irish-Americans, they think of dying food green, they think everything is happy. But really, in terms of the famine, this is very sad imagery.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, Americans have long embraced St. Patrick's Day traditions that might bemuse the folks back in Ireland, where festivities are a lot more subdued, Kinealy notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, St. Paddy's Day Parades? Those originated here in the late 1700s. (George Washington was known to give his Irish soldiers the day off so they could join the celebrations, she says.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that quintessential dish of the holiday, corned beef — it may be delicious, but it's most definitely not Irish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Smithsonian.com \u003ca href=\"http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/is-corned-beef-really-irish-2839144/?no-ist\">noted\u003c/a> last year, in Gaelic Ireland, cows were a symbol of wealth and a sacred animal, kept more for their milk than their meat – which was only consumed once an animals' milking days were over. In the Irish diet, meat meant pork. It wasn't until Britain conquered most of Ireland that Irish \"corned beef\" came into existence — to satisfy the beef-loving English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ironically, the ones producing the corned beef, the Irish people, could not afford beef or corned beef for themselves,\" Smithsonian notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funny enough, the Irish didn't learn to love corned beef until coming to America – where they picked up the taste from their Jewish neighbors in the urban melting pot of New York City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these days, even the Irish back in the homeland have to come to accept this Irish-American dietary quirk, Kinealy says. As tourist season revs up and Americans head to the Emerald Isle to celebrate St. Paddy's Day, \"a lot of pubs in Ireland will offer corned beef because they know the tourists like it. It's come full circle.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Cupcakes, cookies and beer dyed green may mean party time in America, but on the Emerald Isle, they harken back to a desperate past. Still, Ireland has learned to embrace the kitsch for the tourists.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1395075847,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":539},"headData":{"title":"The Dark History Of Green Food On St. Patrick's Day | KQED","description":"Cupcakes, cookies and beer dyed green may mean party time in America, but on the Emerald Isle, they harken back to a desperate past. Still, Ireland has learned to embrace the kitsch for the tourists.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"79164 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=79164","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2014/03/17/the-dark-history-of-green-food-on-st-patricks-day/","disqusTitle":"The Dark History Of Green Food On St. Patrick's Day","nprByline":"Maria Godoy","nprStoryId":"290259538","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=290259538&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/03/17/290259538/the-dark-history-of-green-food-on-st-patricks-day?ft=3&f=290259538","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Mon, 17 Mar 2014 12:47:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Mon, 17 Mar 2014 12:47:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Mon, 17 Mar 2014 12:47:27 -0400","path":"/bayareabites/79164/the-dark-history-of-green-food-on-st-patricks-day","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_79165\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/03/istock_000015814205medium_wide-16a614b0f43cad7ae207ab2e936a6410b48bfb33.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/03/istock_000015814205medium_wide-16a614b0f43cad7ae207ab2e936a6410b48bfb33-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"Green cupcakes may mean party time in America, but in Ireland, emerald-tinged edibles harken back to a desperate past. Photo: Ro Jo Images/iStockphoto\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" class=\"size-large wp-image-79165\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green cupcakes may mean party time in America, but in Ireland, emerald-tinged edibles harken back to a desperate past. Photo: Ro Jo Images/iStockphoto\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Maria Godoy, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/03/17/290259538/the-dark-history-of-green-food-on-st-patricks-day\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (3/17/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green food may mean party time in America, where St. Patrick's Day has long been an excuse to break out the food dye. But in Ireland, where the Irish celebrate their patron saint on March 17, green food has bitter connotations that recall the nation's darkest chapter, says historian \u003ca href=\"http://www.users.drew.edu/ckinealy/\">Christine Kinealy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason, Kinealy explains, is the Irish potato famine of the 1840s, which forced so many Irish to flee mass starvation in their homeland in search of better times in America and elsewhere. Those who stayed behind turned to desperate measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People were so deprived of food that they resorted to eating grass,\" Kinealy tells The Salt. \"In Irish folk memory, they talk about people's mouths being green as they died.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least a million Irish died in the span of six years, says Kinealy, the founding director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.quinnipiac.edu/institutes-and-centers/irelands-great-hunger-institute/\">Ireland's Great Hunger Institute\u003c/a> at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut. Which is why, for an Irishwoman like Kinealy, who hails from Dublin and County Mayo, the sight of green-tinged edibles intended as a joyous nod to Irish history can be jolting, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Before I came to America, I'd never seen a green bagel.\" She says. \"For Irish-Americans, they think of dying food green, they think everything is happy. But really, in terms of the famine, this is very sad imagery.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, Americans have long embraced St. Patrick's Day traditions that might bemuse the folks back in Ireland, where festivities are a lot more subdued, Kinealy notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, St. Paddy's Day Parades? Those originated here in the late 1700s. (George Washington was known to give his Irish soldiers the day off so they could join the celebrations, she says.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that quintessential dish of the holiday, corned beef — it may be delicious, but it's most definitely not Irish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Smithsonian.com \u003ca href=\"http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/is-corned-beef-really-irish-2839144/?no-ist\">noted\u003c/a> last year, in Gaelic Ireland, cows were a symbol of wealth and a sacred animal, kept more for their milk than their meat – which was only consumed once an animals' milking days were over. In the Irish diet, meat meant pork. It wasn't until Britain conquered most of Ireland that Irish \"corned beef\" came into existence — to satisfy the beef-loving English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ironically, the ones producing the corned beef, the Irish people, could not afford beef or corned beef for themselves,\" Smithsonian notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funny enough, the Irish didn't learn to love corned beef until coming to America – where they picked up the taste from their Jewish neighbors in the urban melting pot of New York City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these days, even the Irish back in the homeland have to come to accept this Irish-American dietary quirk, Kinealy says. As tourist season revs up and Americans head to the Emerald Isle to celebrate St. Paddy's Day, \"a lot of pubs in Ireland will offer corned beef because they know the tourists like it. It's come full circle.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/79164/the-dark-history-of-green-food-on-st-patricks-day","authors":["byline_bayareabites_79164"],"categories":["bayareabites_1763","bayareabites_10916"],"tags":["bayareabites_476","bayareabites_123","bayareabites_10921"],"featImg":"bayareabites_79170","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_79041":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_79041","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"79041","score":null,"sort":[1394640544000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"spirited-sweets-for-st-patricks-or-any-day","title":"Spirited Sweets for St. Patrick's (or Any) Day","publishDate":1394640544,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>Post by Laura B. Weiss, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2014/03/12/289084832/spirited-sweets-for-st-patricks-or-any-day\" target=\"_blank\">Kitchen Window for NPR Food\u003c/a> (3/12/2014)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Get recipes for \u003ca href=\"#cake\">Chocolate Kahlua Bundt Cake\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"#salad\">Macerated Oranges, Medjool Dates And Grapes with Slivered Almonds\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"#bacon\">Beer-Candied Bacon With Thyme\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"#milkshake\">Chocolate Mint Milkshake\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saint Patrick's Day, often the first order of business is to raise a glass to the Irish with a frosty mug of green beer. You might also savor a slice of Irish soda bread, rich with raisins and caraway seeds, or tuck into a hearty dish of corned beef and cabbage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when March 17 rolls around, don't neglect the desserts. You could certainly stick to traditional offerings like shamrock-shaped cookies and emerald-tinged cupcakes. But I tire quickly of all that blazing green. I prefer to punctuate a festive meal with alcohol-infused sweets, from a decadent chocolate Bundt cake to a creamy mint milkshake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's also a bowl of oranges, grapes and dates macerated in white wine, and baked bacon \"candy\" — crisp and mahogany-hued with a glaze of beer, brown sugar, mustard and thyme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly any sweet creation you can think of could get a boost from a splash of spirits. In baked goods, spirits impart not only flavor but also moisture that creates a sumptuous, tender crumb. Think brownies and cakes soused with beer, or cupcakes laced with gin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alcohol provides an adult upgrade to childhood ice cream favorites such as popsicles, sundaes and floats. Add some zing to a frozen blueberry pop with an injection of vodka, jazz up a hot fudge sundae with a splash of scotch, and pep up the retro root beer float with a dash of rum or vodka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White and red wines marry beautifully with just about any fruit, from berries to bananas. On a cold wintry night, I'll happily sit down to a bowl of sliced pears poached in butter, honey, rum and a touch of cinnamon. Dare to be extravagant and top this dish off with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Desserts made with alcohol date back to antiquity. In the ancient Roman cookbook \u003ca href=\"http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29728/29728-h/29728-h.htm\">\u003cem>Apicius\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \"sweet wine was paired with fruits as a syrup and used to flavor cakes,\" says Lynn Oliver, editor of \u003ca href=\"http://www.foodtimeline.org/\">The Food Timeline\u003c/a>. During medieval times, liquor acted as a preservative in baked goods such as English fruitcake. In the U.S., the colonists used alcohol liberally when creating sweet dishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Brandy is all over the first American cookbook by Amelia Simmons,\" writes Michael Krondl, author of \u003cem>Sweet Invention\u003c/em>: \u003cem>A History of Dessert,\u003c/em> in an email. Then during Prohibition, liquored-up desserts largely fell out of favor. Recently, though, desserts made with spirits have experienced a revival, perhaps mirroring the recent cocktails renaissance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Europeans have long embraced the idea of alcohol as an essential dessert ingredient. In Italy, there's \u003ca href=\"http://tavolatalk.com/2013/panbriacone-italys-drunken-sweet-bread/#!\">the dome-shaped Italian sweet bread, panettone\u003c/a>, injected with sweet wine or rum. The French have small rum-soaked yeast cakes, \u003cem>baba au rhum,\u003c/em> which Krondl says were probably introduced to France by a Polish king. Then there's the decadent German \u003ca href=\"http://www.saveur.com/article/kitchen/saveur-100-black-forest-cake\">Black Forest cake\u003c/a>, constructed from layers of chocolate sponge cake, whipped cream, sour cherries and kirsch (cherry brandy).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, does alcohol burn off when you cook or bake it? Not completely. But a cake likely retains more spirits than, say, a sauce does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would think that whatever alcohol is lost in baking is considerably less than what is lost when you boil or flame alcohol in cooking,\" writes Dorrie Greenspan, the author of \u003cem>Baking: From My Home to Yours\u003c/em>, in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want the flavor of spirits but not the buzz, try extracts, which contain little or no alcohol. For recipes calling for light rum, for example, the flavorings company McCormick & Co. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mccormick.com/Spices-and-Flavors/Extracts-and-Food-Colors/Extracts/Imitation-Rum-Extract\">recommends substituting\u003c/a> 1/2 teaspoon of imitation rum per tablespoon of spirit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buzzed or not, these sweets are my standbys for St. Patrick's Day or any occasion that calls for a dramatic dessert.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca name=\"cake\">\u003c/a>Chocolate Kahlua Bundt Cake\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This cake, adapted from a 2005 \u003c/em>Gourmet\u003cem> recipe for Chocolate Whiskey Bundt Cake, is rich and delicious, and the coffee liqueur heightens the intensity of the chocolate. This cake improves in flavor if it's made at least a day ahead, and it can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 5 days. Bring the cake to room temperature before serving.\u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_79042\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/03/liquorcake-ebe1ae4329d4446a4ca0327b79be2aaef47daa5d.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/03/liquorcake-ebe1ae4329d4446a4ca0327b79be2aaef47daa5d-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"Chocolate Kahlua Bundt Cake. Photo: Laura B. Weiss/NPR\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" class=\"size-large wp-image-79042\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chocolate Kahlua Bundt Cake. Photo: Laura B. Weiss/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Makes 10 to 12 servings\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (not Dutch-process) plus 3 tablespoons for dusting the pan\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 3/4 cups brewed espresso or strong coffee\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/2 cup coffee-flavored liqueur, such as Kahlua\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2 sticks unsalted butter, cut into 1-inch pieces\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3/4 cup white sugar\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3/4 cup dark brown sugar\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2 cups all-purpose flour\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/2 teaspoon salt\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2 large eggs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 teaspoon almond extract or vanilla extract\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Place oven rack in the middle position and preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Butter a 10-inch Bundt pan well, then dust it with 3 tablespoons cocoa powder, knocking out the excess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heat the coffee, coffee liqueur and butter and the cup of cocoa powder in a medium saucepan over moderate heat, whisking until the butter is melted and all the ingredients are combined. Remove mixture from heat, then add white and brown sugars and whisk until dissolved, about 1 minute. Transfer the mixture to a large bowl and cool for about 5 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the chocolate mixture cools, whisk together the flour, baking soda and salt in a bowl. In a separate bowl, whisk together the eggs with almond or vanilla extract, then stir into the cooled chocolate mixture until it's combined well. Fold in the flour mixture until all of the ingredients are combined. (It will take some elbow grease to combine the ingredients; the batter will be mostly smooth, but don't be alarmed if there are a few small lumps.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pour the batter into the Bundt pan and bake it until a toothpick or skewer inserted in the center comes out clean, 30 to 35 minutes. Watch the cake closely. It goes quickly from moist to overbaked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cool the cake completely in the pan for an hour. Loosen the cake from the pan using the tip of a small knife, then invert the rack over the pan and turn the cake out onto the rack. Cool the cake on the rack for another hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dust the cake with powdered sugar.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca name=\"salad\">\u003c/a>Macerated Oranges, Medjool Dates And Grapes with Slivered Almonds\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Though I trembled at the thought of tinkering with a recipe by the iconic Italian cookbook writer Marcella Hazan, tinker I did. Her recipe for \u003c/em>\u003cem>Macerated Oranges and Grapes with Toasted Slivered Almonds from \u003c/em>The Classic Italian Cookbook\u003cem>, called for orange liqueur but I liked the lighter taste imparted by white wine. I also added \u003c/em>\u003cem>dates and nuts for color and texture.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_79043\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/03/liquorfruitsalad-2f3934598e1a4f34da197628ebed4cbec2f80d0c.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/03/liquorfruitsalad-2f3934598e1a4f34da197628ebed4cbec2f80d0c-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"Macerated Oranges, Medjool Dates And Grapes with Slivered Almonds. Photo: Laura B. Weiss/NPR\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" class=\"size-large wp-image-79043\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Macerated Oranges, Medjool Dates And Grapes with Slivered Almonds. Photo: Laura B. Weiss/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Makes 6 to 8 servings\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4 navel oranges, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch slices\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 small bunch of grapes\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>6 Medjool dates, cut in half vertically, pitted then cut into quarters\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grated peel of 1 lemon\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juice of 1/2 lemon\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/4 cup white wine\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 teaspoon vanilla\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2 tablespoons slivered almonds\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a sharp knife, cut off the ends of the oranges and peel them. Remove as much of the pith as possible, being careful not to cut into the flesh of the orange. Cut the orange in half, then into quarters. Cut the quarters into 1/2-inch slices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Put the oranges, grapes and dates into a bowl. Using a zester or the finest teeth on a box grater, grate the lemon peel into the bowl. Add the lemon juice. Add the wine and the vanilla. Toss the fruit salad gently, cover it and place it in the refrigerator for at least an hour. When you're ready to serve the fruit, toss it again to distribute the juices and sprinkle the salad with the slivered almonds. The salad keeps in the refrigerator for up to a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca name=\"bacon\">\u003c/a>Beer-Candied Bacon With Thyme\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>If you love candy and you love bacon, you'll love this bacon candy, which I adapted from a recipe from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.thekitchn.com/\">theKitchn\u003c/a> via the food blog \u003ca href=\"http://tideandthyme.com/\">Tide and Thyme\u003c/a>. The addition of thyme cuts the sweetness of the bacon and imparts a bit of adult polish. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_79044\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/03/liquorbacon-c29dd465a5893165e7a99e8c9fac67029840839a.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/03/liquorbacon-c29dd465a5893165e7a99e8c9fac67029840839a-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"Beer-Candied Bacon With Thyme. Photo: Laura B. Weiss/NPR\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" class=\"size-large wp-image-79044\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beer-Candied Bacon With Thyme. Photo: Laura B. Weiss/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Makes 4 servings\u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 cup brown sugar\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/4 cup dark beer\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/4 teaspoon mustard\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinch cayenne\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/2 pound thick cut, high-quality bacon\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/2 teaspoon thyme\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Combine the brown sugar, beer, mustard and cayenne in a small bowl, whisking well to form a thin syrup. Set aside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Line a rimmed baking sheet with aluminum foil. Place a wire cooling rack on top of the baking sheet. Place the pieces of bacon on top of the rack, with enough space between them so they don't overlap. Brush one side of each bacon strip with the beer syrup. Place the sheet in the oven and cook for 8 to10 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remove the bacon from the oven, turn over the strips of bacon and brush them with the beer syrup. Return the bacon to the oven and cook it for another 8 to 10 minutes. Remove the bacon from the oven and sprinkle it with thyme. Repeat the process once or twice more, watching to make sure the bacon doesn't burn, until it's crispy and browned and you've used all of the glaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remove the bacon to a wire rack to cool for at least 1 hour before serving.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca name=\"milkshake\">\u003c/a>Chocolate Mint Milkshake\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>In this recipe, which is adapted from a drink called \"The Captain Reid's Milkshake\" in Warren Bobrow's \u003c/em>Apothecary Cocktails: Restorative Drinks from Yesterday and Today\u003cem>, mint liqueur and chocolate ice cream combine into a rich milkshake. This shake is thinner than the typical milkshake; if you prefer thicker shakes, reduce the amount of milk and adjust the mint liqueur to your taste. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_79045\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/03/liquormilkshake_custom-d179474970e7102b8e0ccf49f7f6e41cbe3cc4f2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/03/liquormilkshake_custom-d179474970e7102b8e0ccf49f7f6e41cbe3cc4f2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Chocolate Mint Milkshake. Photo: Laura B. Weiss/NPR\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" class=\"size-large wp-image-79045\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chocolate Mint Milkshake. Photo: Laura B. Weiss/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Makes 4 servings\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2 ounces root beer, preferably craft-style\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3/4 ounce mint liqueur\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4 scoops rich, deep chocolate gelato or ice cream\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4 ounces whole milk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 tablespoon colored sprinkles for garnish\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinch of fleur du sel\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a blender, blend all of the ingredients except the sprinkles and salt until smooth. Pour into glasses and top each serving with sprinkles and fleur du sel. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>About the Author\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Laura B. Weiss' work has appeared in numerous national publications, including \u003cem>The New York Times,\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"http://www.saveur.com/article/Kitchen/History-New-England-Indian-Pudding\">Saveur\u003c/a>,\u003cem> Travel + Leisure, \u003c/em>and on the Food Network website. She's a contributor to \u003ca href=\"http://designwire.interiordesign.net/events/15485/young-chinese-designers-make-western-debut\">Interior Design\u003c/a>\u003cem>'s\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>blog\u003cem> \u003c/em>and\u003cem> \u003c/em>was an editor for the \u003cem>Zagat Long Island Restaurant Guide\u003c/em> \u003cem>2009-2011. \u003c/em>Laura is the author of \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Ice-Cream-Global-History-Reaktion/dp/1861897928\">Ice Cream: A Global History\u003c/a>. Follow Laura on Twitter, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Foodandthings\" target=\"_blank\">@foodandthings\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The typical green-themed cookie or cupcake is no match for these alcohol-infused treats. Celebrate with Kahlua cake, a mint-liqueur milkshake, wine-soaked fruit salad or beer-glazed bacon candy.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1394642601,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":71,"wordCount":1854},"headData":{"title":"Spirited Sweets for St. Patrick's (or Any) Day | KQED","description":"The typical green-themed cookie or cupcake is no match for these alcohol-infused treats. Celebrate with Kahlua cake, a mint-liqueur milkshake, wine-soaked fruit salad or beer-glazed bacon candy.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"79041 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=79041","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2014/03/12/spirited-sweets-for-st-patricks-or-any-day/","disqusTitle":"Spirited Sweets for St. Patrick's (or Any) Day","nprByline":"Laura B. Weiss","nprStoryId":"289084832","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=289084832&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/2014/03/12/289084832/spirited-sweets-for-st-patricks-or-any-day?ft=3&f=289084832","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Wed, 12 Mar 2014 08:37:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Wed, 12 Mar 2014 08:05:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Wed, 12 Mar 2014 08:37:45 -0400","path":"/bayareabites/79041/spirited-sweets-for-st-patricks-or-any-day","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Post by Laura B. Weiss, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2014/03/12/289084832/spirited-sweets-for-st-patricks-or-any-day\" target=\"_blank\">Kitchen Window for NPR Food\u003c/a> (3/12/2014)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Get recipes for \u003ca href=\"#cake\">Chocolate Kahlua Bundt Cake\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"#salad\">Macerated Oranges, Medjool Dates And Grapes with Slivered Almonds\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"#bacon\">Beer-Candied Bacon With Thyme\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"#milkshake\">Chocolate Mint Milkshake\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saint Patrick's Day, often the first order of business is to raise a glass to the Irish with a frosty mug of green beer. You might also savor a slice of Irish soda bread, rich with raisins and caraway seeds, or tuck into a hearty dish of corned beef and cabbage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when March 17 rolls around, don't neglect the desserts. You could certainly stick to traditional offerings like shamrock-shaped cookies and emerald-tinged cupcakes. But I tire quickly of all that blazing green. I prefer to punctuate a festive meal with alcohol-infused sweets, from a decadent chocolate Bundt cake to a creamy mint milkshake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's also a bowl of oranges, grapes and dates macerated in white wine, and baked bacon \"candy\" — crisp and mahogany-hued with a glaze of beer, brown sugar, mustard and thyme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly any sweet creation you can think of could get a boost from a splash of spirits. In baked goods, spirits impart not only flavor but also moisture that creates a sumptuous, tender crumb. Think brownies and cakes soused with beer, or cupcakes laced with gin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alcohol provides an adult upgrade to childhood ice cream favorites such as popsicles, sundaes and floats. Add some zing to a frozen blueberry pop with an injection of vodka, jazz up a hot fudge sundae with a splash of scotch, and pep up the retro root beer float with a dash of rum or vodka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White and red wines marry beautifully with just about any fruit, from berries to bananas. On a cold wintry night, I'll happily sit down to a bowl of sliced pears poached in butter, honey, rum and a touch of cinnamon. Dare to be extravagant and top this dish off with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Desserts made with alcohol date back to antiquity. In the ancient Roman cookbook \u003ca href=\"http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29728/29728-h/29728-h.htm\">\u003cem>Apicius\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \"sweet wine was paired with fruits as a syrup and used to flavor cakes,\" says Lynn Oliver, editor of \u003ca href=\"http://www.foodtimeline.org/\">The Food Timeline\u003c/a>. During medieval times, liquor acted as a preservative in baked goods such as English fruitcake. In the U.S., the colonists used alcohol liberally when creating sweet dishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Brandy is all over the first American cookbook by Amelia Simmons,\" writes Michael Krondl, author of \u003cem>Sweet Invention\u003c/em>: \u003cem>A History of Dessert,\u003c/em> in an email. Then during Prohibition, liquored-up desserts largely fell out of favor. Recently, though, desserts made with spirits have experienced a revival, perhaps mirroring the recent cocktails renaissance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Europeans have long embraced the idea of alcohol as an essential dessert ingredient. In Italy, there's \u003ca href=\"http://tavolatalk.com/2013/panbriacone-italys-drunken-sweet-bread/#!\">the dome-shaped Italian sweet bread, panettone\u003c/a>, injected with sweet wine or rum. The French have small rum-soaked yeast cakes, \u003cem>baba au rhum,\u003c/em> which Krondl says were probably introduced to France by a Polish king. Then there's the decadent German \u003ca href=\"http://www.saveur.com/article/kitchen/saveur-100-black-forest-cake\">Black Forest cake\u003c/a>, constructed from layers of chocolate sponge cake, whipped cream, sour cherries and kirsch (cherry brandy).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, does alcohol burn off when you cook or bake it? Not completely. But a cake likely retains more spirits than, say, a sauce does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would think that whatever alcohol is lost in baking is considerably less than what is lost when you boil or flame alcohol in cooking,\" writes Dorrie Greenspan, the author of \u003cem>Baking: From My Home to Yours\u003c/em>, in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want the flavor of spirits but not the buzz, try extracts, which contain little or no alcohol. For recipes calling for light rum, for example, the flavorings company McCormick & Co. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mccormick.com/Spices-and-Flavors/Extracts-and-Food-Colors/Extracts/Imitation-Rum-Extract\">recommends substituting\u003c/a> 1/2 teaspoon of imitation rum per tablespoon of spirit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buzzed or not, these sweets are my standbys for St. Patrick's Day or any occasion that calls for a dramatic dessert.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca name=\"cake\">\u003c/a>Chocolate Kahlua Bundt Cake\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This cake, adapted from a 2005 \u003c/em>Gourmet\u003cem> recipe for Chocolate Whiskey Bundt Cake, is rich and delicious, and the coffee liqueur heightens the intensity of the chocolate. This cake improves in flavor if it's made at least a day ahead, and it can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 5 days. Bring the cake to room temperature before serving.\u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_79042\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/03/liquorcake-ebe1ae4329d4446a4ca0327b79be2aaef47daa5d.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/03/liquorcake-ebe1ae4329d4446a4ca0327b79be2aaef47daa5d-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"Chocolate Kahlua Bundt Cake. Photo: Laura B. Weiss/NPR\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" class=\"size-large wp-image-79042\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chocolate Kahlua Bundt Cake. Photo: Laura B. Weiss/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Makes 10 to 12 servings\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (not Dutch-process) plus 3 tablespoons for dusting the pan\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 3/4 cups brewed espresso or strong coffee\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/2 cup coffee-flavored liqueur, such as Kahlua\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2 sticks unsalted butter, cut into 1-inch pieces\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3/4 cup white sugar\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3/4 cup dark brown sugar\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2 cups all-purpose flour\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/2 teaspoon salt\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2 large eggs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 teaspoon almond extract or vanilla extract\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Place oven rack in the middle position and preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Butter a 10-inch Bundt pan well, then dust it with 3 tablespoons cocoa powder, knocking out the excess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heat the coffee, coffee liqueur and butter and the cup of cocoa powder in a medium saucepan over moderate heat, whisking until the butter is melted and all the ingredients are combined. Remove mixture from heat, then add white and brown sugars and whisk until dissolved, about 1 minute. Transfer the mixture to a large bowl and cool for about 5 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the chocolate mixture cools, whisk together the flour, baking soda and salt in a bowl. In a separate bowl, whisk together the eggs with almond or vanilla extract, then stir into the cooled chocolate mixture until it's combined well. Fold in the flour mixture until all of the ingredients are combined. (It will take some elbow grease to combine the ingredients; the batter will be mostly smooth, but don't be alarmed if there are a few small lumps.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pour the batter into the Bundt pan and bake it until a toothpick or skewer inserted in the center comes out clean, 30 to 35 minutes. Watch the cake closely. It goes quickly from moist to overbaked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cool the cake completely in the pan for an hour. Loosen the cake from the pan using the tip of a small knife, then invert the rack over the pan and turn the cake out onto the rack. Cool the cake on the rack for another hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dust the cake with powdered sugar.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca name=\"salad\">\u003c/a>Macerated Oranges, Medjool Dates And Grapes with Slivered Almonds\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Though I trembled at the thought of tinkering with a recipe by the iconic Italian cookbook writer Marcella Hazan, tinker I did. Her recipe for \u003c/em>\u003cem>Macerated Oranges and Grapes with Toasted Slivered Almonds from \u003c/em>The Classic Italian Cookbook\u003cem>, called for orange liqueur but I liked the lighter taste imparted by white wine. I also added \u003c/em>\u003cem>dates and nuts for color and texture.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_79043\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/03/liquorfruitsalad-2f3934598e1a4f34da197628ebed4cbec2f80d0c.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/03/liquorfruitsalad-2f3934598e1a4f34da197628ebed4cbec2f80d0c-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"Macerated Oranges, Medjool Dates And Grapes with Slivered Almonds. Photo: Laura B. Weiss/NPR\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" class=\"size-large wp-image-79043\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Macerated Oranges, Medjool Dates And Grapes with Slivered Almonds. Photo: Laura B. Weiss/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Makes 6 to 8 servings\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4 navel oranges, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch slices\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 small bunch of grapes\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>6 Medjool dates, cut in half vertically, pitted then cut into quarters\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grated peel of 1 lemon\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juice of 1/2 lemon\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/4 cup white wine\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 teaspoon vanilla\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2 tablespoons slivered almonds\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a sharp knife, cut off the ends of the oranges and peel them. Remove as much of the pith as possible, being careful not to cut into the flesh of the orange. Cut the orange in half, then into quarters. Cut the quarters into 1/2-inch slices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Put the oranges, grapes and dates into a bowl. Using a zester or the finest teeth on a box grater, grate the lemon peel into the bowl. Add the lemon juice. Add the wine and the vanilla. Toss the fruit salad gently, cover it and place it in the refrigerator for at least an hour. When you're ready to serve the fruit, toss it again to distribute the juices and sprinkle the salad with the slivered almonds. The salad keeps in the refrigerator for up to a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca name=\"bacon\">\u003c/a>Beer-Candied Bacon With Thyme\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>If you love candy and you love bacon, you'll love this bacon candy, which I adapted from a recipe from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.thekitchn.com/\">theKitchn\u003c/a> via the food blog \u003ca href=\"http://tideandthyme.com/\">Tide and Thyme\u003c/a>. The addition of thyme cuts the sweetness of the bacon and imparts a bit of adult polish. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_79044\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/03/liquorbacon-c29dd465a5893165e7a99e8c9fac67029840839a.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/03/liquorbacon-c29dd465a5893165e7a99e8c9fac67029840839a-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"Beer-Candied Bacon With Thyme. Photo: Laura B. Weiss/NPR\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" class=\"size-large wp-image-79044\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beer-Candied Bacon With Thyme. Photo: Laura B. Weiss/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Makes 4 servings\u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 cup brown sugar\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/4 cup dark beer\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/4 teaspoon mustard\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinch cayenne\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/2 pound thick cut, high-quality bacon\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/2 teaspoon thyme\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Combine the brown sugar, beer, mustard and cayenne in a small bowl, whisking well to form a thin syrup. Set aside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Line a rimmed baking sheet with aluminum foil. Place a wire cooling rack on top of the baking sheet. Place the pieces of bacon on top of the rack, with enough space between them so they don't overlap. Brush one side of each bacon strip with the beer syrup. Place the sheet in the oven and cook for 8 to10 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remove the bacon from the oven, turn over the strips of bacon and brush them with the beer syrup. Return the bacon to the oven and cook it for another 8 to 10 minutes. Remove the bacon from the oven and sprinkle it with thyme. Repeat the process once or twice more, watching to make sure the bacon doesn't burn, until it's crispy and browned and you've used all of the glaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remove the bacon to a wire rack to cool for at least 1 hour before serving.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca name=\"milkshake\">\u003c/a>Chocolate Mint Milkshake\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>In this recipe, which is adapted from a drink called \"The Captain Reid's Milkshake\" in Warren Bobrow's \u003c/em>Apothecary Cocktails: Restorative Drinks from Yesterday and Today\u003cem>, mint liqueur and chocolate ice cream combine into a rich milkshake. This shake is thinner than the typical milkshake; if you prefer thicker shakes, reduce the amount of milk and adjust the mint liqueur to your taste. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_79045\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/03/liquormilkshake_custom-d179474970e7102b8e0ccf49f7f6e41cbe3cc4f2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/03/liquormilkshake_custom-d179474970e7102b8e0ccf49f7f6e41cbe3cc4f2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Chocolate Mint Milkshake. Photo: Laura B. Weiss/NPR\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" class=\"size-large wp-image-79045\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chocolate Mint Milkshake. Photo: Laura B. Weiss/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Makes 4 servings\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2 ounces root beer, preferably craft-style\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3/4 ounce mint liqueur\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4 scoops rich, deep chocolate gelato or ice cream\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4 ounces whole milk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 tablespoon colored sprinkles for garnish\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinch of fleur du sel\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a blender, blend all of the ingredients except the sprinkles and salt until smooth. Pour into glasses and top each serving with sprinkles and fleur du sel. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>About the Author\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Laura B. Weiss' work has appeared in numerous national publications, including \u003cem>The New York Times,\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"http://www.saveur.com/article/Kitchen/History-New-England-Indian-Pudding\">Saveur\u003c/a>,\u003cem> Travel + Leisure, \u003c/em>and on the Food Network website. She's a contributor to \u003ca href=\"http://designwire.interiordesign.net/events/15485/young-chinese-designers-make-western-debut\">Interior Design\u003c/a>\u003cem>'s\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>blog\u003cem> \u003c/em>and\u003cem> \u003c/em>was an editor for the \u003cem>Zagat Long Island Restaurant Guide\u003c/em> \u003cem>2009-2011. \u003c/em>Laura is the author of \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Ice-Cream-Global-History-Reaktion/dp/1861897928\">Ice Cream: A Global History\u003c/a>. Follow Laura on Twitter, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Foodandthings\" target=\"_blank\">@foodandthings\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/79041/spirited-sweets-for-st-patricks-or-any-day","authors":["byline_bayareabites_79041"],"categories":["bayareabites_1516","bayareabites_1244","bayareabites_12550","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_12"],"tags":["bayareabites_8359","bayareabites_278","bayareabites_13157","bayareabites_11086","bayareabites_8349","bayareabites_123"],"featImg":"bayareabites_79050","label":"bayareabites"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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