Irish

Posted by: Alpha ThessaLika R.M.B.B ( F1021131090 )

Welcome to the country where is the most of 1Direction boys from here ! Being a country that most of Hollywood artists came from, Ireland itself has ton of culture and heritage too. And same as like Spain, Ireland has festival or ceremony that also well known in the world. They are St. Patrick 's day and The Twelfth July, what are they ?  The St. Patrick's day is a ceremony that held for commemorate the arrival of Saint Patrick who is spreading about Christianity in Ireland on 17 March. The celebration involves festival, parade, and wearing of green attire. Well St. Patrick's day is not also celebrate in Ireland but also in around the world especially in Britain, Canada, the United States, Argentina, Australia and New Zealand. What about the Twelfth July ? Like its name its held on 12 July which is mean tomorrow! It celebrates the Glorious Revolution and victory of  Dutch Protestant king William of Orange over Catholic King of England James II at the Battle of the Boyne. Large parades are held by the Orange Order and Ulster loyalist marching bands, streets are bedecked with British flags and bunting, and large bonfires are lit while the ceremony.

Apple Amber

Talks about St. Patrick's day usually Irish makes special traditional desserts on that day which is to encourage the special day. Here one of them

http://chelleskitchen.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/AppleAmber.jpg 

 Become a fruit that really grows well in Irish climate apple well turn into a delicious cake by Irish. Its apple amber, it is one of those Irish recipes that plainly involves the cook strolling out to the tree on a whim, pulling a few green cooking apples off it, and taking them back inside to quickly turn them into something unusually nice to end the meal. But the fact that the apples are cooked before baking suggests that this method was meant to work well with storage apples as well, the fruit that had been put away in straw in the cold cellar to last until the first new fruit of the next summer and fall started coming in. Well I bet it is one of the delicious pie ever :)

Carrageen Citrus Pudding

http://www.europeancuisines.com/images/OrangeAndLemonCarrageenPudding.jpg

After have a meal with pie why don't we try a pudding as a complement for St. Patrick's day ? Well carageen citrus pudding is made from carageen or seaweed that become on of product that Ireland's longest running industries and usually its use for ingredients for the cook. The carrageen seaweed retains only the slightest taste or scent of the sea. Some people don't care for this: others think it adds a unique flavor to a dessert, an edgy, slightly spicy quality. That taste goes blend perfectly with citrus flavors, and treatments including orange, or lemon, or both -- as in this pudding --. And as additional information carageen usually use for healthy medicine and natural cosmetic, well it means carageen really perfect as healthy dessert right ?

Sources:

http://www.europeancuisines.com/Ireland-Desserts-Apple-Amber-Tart-Meringue-Pie 

http://www.europeancuisines.com/Ireland-Desserts-Orange-And-Lemon-Carrageen-Pudding-Dessert 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick%27s_Day

http://www.europeancuisines.com/Ireland-Authentic-Traditional-Irish-Desserts-Dessert-Recipes