Recipe for Carrigeen Moss Pudding

WE so love Carrigeen moss, it is bursting with goodness but it can be dire — if too much carrigeen is used it will be stiff and really unpalatable.

This is my mother-inlaw, Myrtle Allen’s recipe. It’s the best and most delicious recipe I know for carrigeen. We find that visitors to the country are fascinated by the idea of a dessert made with seaweed and they just love it. The name means little rock in Gaelic.

The late Fred Dawes taught me how to forage for and harvest Carrigeen moss. He picked it off the rocks in the little cove of Ballyandreen in east Cork after the spring tides.