Baking barmbrack with Michelle Darmody

BARMBRACK is a truly Irish cake. Traditionally it is a fruit cake that can tell your fortune; the ring announces an upcoming wedding, finding a piece of cloth foretells poverty, find the thimble and you are destined to be a spinster and the button a bachelor, but the pea or the coin signal plenty.

Baking barmbrack with Michelle Darmody
Sat, 20 Oct, 2018 - 01:00

BARMBRACK is a truly Irish cake. Traditionally it is a fruit cake that can tell your fortune; the ring announces an upcoming wedding, finding a piece of cloth foretells poverty, find the thimble and you are destined to be a spinster and the button a bachelor, but the pea or the coin signal plenty.

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