Bar brace
Barmbrack (also Barm Brack , Irish Bairín Breac ) is a traditional Irish pastry that is also served on Halloween . The English name barm comes from the Old English word beorma ("yeast", "sourdough"). Irish bairín means "loaf of bread". The component brack comes from the Irish word breac ("speckled"). It indicates the rich fruit filling that makes the bread look speckled.
Barmbrack is a light, slightly sweet fruit or fruit bread with raisins and sultanas . In some recipes, dried currants and cherries are also added. Also, dates , almonds or walnuts and nutmeg are mentioned as ingredients in some recipes. The fruits are soaked in tea and whiskey and then in a yeast doughor bread dough that uses baking powder as a leavening agent. The fresh barmbrack is coated with a spiced butter, consisting of butter, cinnamon and gingerbread spices, and is eaten with tea.
regional customs
Barmbrack is traditionally eaten on Halloween, the Irish Samhain . On this occasion, other special ingredients are baked into the bread, which should give the later finder hints for the future. How to bake in a bar rack:
- Ring, it stands for an approaching wedding,
- Pea, for the opposite,
- Branch, means approaching dispute,
- Penny, stands for a successful year or wealth in the future,
- Substance, represents unhappiness or poverty in the future,
During the New Year, remnants of the barracks are thrown in front of the back door in some areas to avert misfortune.
Mentions
In the film Philomena , the leading actress Judi Dench is served barracks for tea while searching for her child.
Van Morrison sings about Barmbrack in his song A Sense of Wonder with the line Gravy rings , barmbracks, Wagon wheels, snowballs , in which everything relates to sweets.
The Irish writer James Joyce also mentions Barmbracks in a short story from his Dubliners collection , published in 1914: “The fire was nice and bright and on one of the side tables were four very big barmbracks. These barmbracks seemed uncut; but if you went closer you would see that they had been cut into long thick even slices and were ready to be handed round at tea. "
Individual evidence
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- ↑ Bar brackets. In: gruene-insel.de. 2019, accessed on October 10, 2020 (German).
- ↑ The perfect Irish barmbrack recipe - Felicity Cloake. In: theguardian.com. the Guardian, 2018, accessed October 10, 2020 .
- ↑ Irish Barmbrack (Fruit Bread). In: bakeitwithlove.com. 2018, Retrieved October 10, 2020 (American English).
- ↑ Noëlle Janaczewska: James Joyce. In: eatthetable.com. Eat The Table, accessed October 10, 2020 .