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An ode to toast, a quintessential part of Irish culinary culture
by Caitríona McBride
11th Mar 2024
11th Mar 2024
Photo by Yukiko Kanada on Unsplash
The first “meal” you’re allowed to cook as a kid, toast comforts the sick, revives the hungover, attends to the weary. It is a quintessential part of Irish culture... just make sure you butter it properly.
One of my favourite memories is from when I used to stay with my nana, Róise, as a little girl and she would make toast by piercing a slice of white batch bread with a long fork and holding it to the open fire to scorch it on one side, leaving the other side soft. She’d spread on Dairygold and some thick cut marmalade. Bless her, it was never spread very evenly but it was...
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