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Barm brack

  • 29-09-2007 5:18pm
    #1
    luckat
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    Where can one get good brack, now that its season has come around?

    Bewley's used to do a nice one, low and wide, with a top glistening with dark sweetness and an inside fruity and yellow from saffron. Superquinn's one is just about edible - well, it's ok if you don't think of it as brack.

    Sources, please!


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  • #2
    WindSock
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    I used to think it was 'Barn'. Whats Barm anyway?


  • #3
    luckat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭luckat


    Barm is yeast, and 'brack' is an English pronunciation of the Irish 'breac'.


  • #4
    luckat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭luckat


    But meanwhile, where do I get a nice brack? Hallowe'en is nearly here, and I won't have time to bake one this Samhain.


  • #5
    _blank_
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    My mam makes a nice brack.

    Or, Superquinn doa really nice one too. It even has a small bronze ring in it.

    Mind your teeth though.


  • #6
    luckat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭luckat


    I really don't like the Superquinn ones - too bready, too tall, not moist enough, not fruity enough, too... generic.


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  • #7
    Lpfsox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 315 ✭✭Lpfsox


    Aldi do a surprisingly nice one, it's not called Barm Brack though - I think it masquerades under the name of Rich Fruit Tea Loaf.

    Blooming gorgeous with real butter spread on it and a cuppa though.


  • #8
    luckat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭luckat


    Rich Tea Loaf, Oxford Lunch, etc are lovely, but they're not brack! </purist>


  • #9
    Lpfsox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 315 ✭✭Lpfsox


    maybe, but this one is very like my mam's homemade barm brack - moist and fruity (ooh matron) and very very yummy.

    Now I'll have to go to Aldi on the way home to buy one :)


  • #10
    Schlemm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 799 ✭✭✭Schlemm


    boreds wrote:
    I used to think it was 'Barn'. Whats Barm anyway?
    Me too! I was always wondering what the barn connection was. Most of the shop one are grand once lightly toasted with a good layer of butter and a cup of tea.


  • #11
    MooseJam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭MooseJam


    I thought it was barn too, used to think they were made in a barn when I was younger :)


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  • #12
    chuckles30
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,380 ✭✭✭chuckles30


    I have to say that I normally get the gateau one and find it lovely. Speaking of which I must take myself into a shop one of the days and get one!!!


  • #13
    Archeron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,297 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Every year, I bite into my piece of brack and find, with a clang, that I have once again been "lucky" enough to get the stupid bloody ring. I tells ya, my kingdom for a nice barm brack that doesnt have pointless bits of metal inside. (and wrapped in gooey paper too for that added EWWWW factor).


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