Put a ring on it: Top 8 shop-bought barmbracks to enjoy this Halloween
Which shop-bought barmbrack fared best in our taste test?
Boo! It’s that time of year – Halloween trick or treats, scary monsters, black hats, fat orange pumpkins with compromised dentitions, nuts, apples, jellied ghoulish sweets. But one of the oldest traditions in Ireland is our bairm breac, a speckled, enriched bread with warm spicy flavours of nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves. Autumn has arrived.
Barmbrack has about 7% protein from eggs and butter in the best of them, which means keeping hunger away longer than other snacks. Dried fruit has fibre and micronutrients such as potassium, selenium and iron, vitamins B and A.
