I don't know if this is about traditional Irish cooking or not (Bríd would know far more about it than I would)

Is Furasta Fuint le Fear as na Minna
www.cic.ie/books/published-books/is-fur ... air-cloite

I don't have the book and I can't find a review online. So I don't know. But as both the editor and the cook are Conamara people it is probably simply cooking.

I am not a good cook myself. Redwolf is the cookery expert.
Apart from a few dishes (soda bread, boxty etc) there is nothing particularly distinctive about Irish cooking. You throw a chop on the pan, you put patatoes with it. You boil a fish, you put patatoes with it. You roast a chicken, you put patatoes with it.

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It is recommended that you always wait for three to agree on a translation.
I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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I'm starting to see that, though I do prefer traditional ingredients (Lamb, Kale, Leeks)

Do you pronounce Cal Ceannann as Colcannon, or is that just the Anglicized spelling?

Thanks again!

I'll put the recipe for you into English this weekend or Monday, after I get a mouse for my computer. I'm not typing anything long out on an Ipad!

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]Shepherd's Pie is found on most Pub menus in Ireland. Traditionally, it was made with lamb hence the name. Now it is more often made with ground beef

Thanks! I'm looking forward to it!

Apart from offers to translate it for you, the answer is also in franc's post, i.e., the book is available in both English and Irish.

Buying books that are available biligually is a good way to learn the language, especially if it's a subject you like.

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My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

That is an excellent idea!

Which is proper for Soda Bread, Arán Sóide or Sodóg?

One finds bread made with baking soda -soda bread -in every part of Ireland. It's easy to make and so often made directly for the tea or breakfast. In our area, we give the term 'soda bread' to a cake made from white flour. Wheat bread or 'wheaten bread' that would be made with fine wholemeal flour. In other places its called wholemeal or brown bread.


1 pound / half kilogram / 4 cup flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon sugar (your choice)
1 pint / half liter / 2 cup buttermilk or sour milk


Sieve ingredients dry in a large bowl. Take up the mixture and let it fall back down again into the bowl. This will air it through. Add enough butter to make a soft dough. Work quickly as the buttermilk and the soda will be already reacting to each other. Knead the dough lightly -too much makes it hard to roll while lack of kneading and it won't be right. Make the cake round and as thick as your fist. Put out a baking sheet on which some flour has been shaken and make a cross on the top with a floured knife. Put it into a heated oven immediately, near the top. Leave there for 30-45 minutes at gas mark 8, 450°F, 230°C. When the cake is baked, there will be a hollow sound if you hit it with one of the joints of your finger. Put a clean tea towl over it immediately or the crust will get too hard.

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