An Irish food glossary (continued)
Féile Bia
Potato Cakes
Quality program run by Bord Bia (The Irish Food Board)
Savoury mixture of potato, wheat flour and butter.
with 1,450 members who provide information to customers
on how the food they serve is produced and where it
Prawn
comes from.
Harvested in many Irish waters. Also known as a langoustine or
Fraughans
Norway lobster.
Variety of wild blueberry used in desserts and for
Rowan berries
flavouring Poitín.
The berries of a rowan tree, also known as the
Full Irish
mountain ash.
Hot breakfast platter consisting of grilled rashers of bacon,
Sloes
sausages, black and white pudding, mushrooms, tomatoes,
potato cake and fried or poached egg.
The fruits of the blackthorn tree and are suitable
for preserves.
Good Food Circles
Slow Food
In a number of areas, restaurants come together to form good
food circles and publish guides listing all members.
International organisation of artisan food producers and
consumers, dedicated to ensuring the diversity and future of
Kassler
small-scale, farm food production using traditional methods.
Prime cuts of pork loin, lightly brined and smoked.
Soda Farl
Kipper
Farl is an old word for a quarter. A flat white soda bread,
shaped into a round, cut into triangular quarters and baked on
To ‘kipper’ a herring is to split it, bone it, lightly salt it, then
a griddle.
smoke it. Eaten at breakfast.
Mead
Taste of Ulster
Quality eating initiative promoted by the Northern Ireland Food
An alcoholic drink made from fermented honey.
and Drink Association. Members are committed to the pursuit
of excellence in food and service, and are dedicated to the use
Oat Cakes
of the finest quality local produce.
Crisp, savoury biscuit made with oatmeal and water; served
with cheese.
Turf-smoked beef
Uncooked beef smoked over turf (peat).
Poitín
Home-made distilled spirit – a practice that is illegal in Ireland.
Ulster Fry
Made from a brew consisting mainly of barley, it has a
The same as Full Irish but fried, with the addition of fried soda
distinctive dry and grainy flavour with a delicate aftertaste that
farl and (sometimes) baked beans.
becomes sweeter as it develops.
Porter Cake
White Pudding
Made with bacon off-cuts, offal, onion, oatmeal, herbs and
A fruit cake in which the liquid used is porter (a light variety
spices.
of stout).
Yalla Man
Honeycombed toffee – speciality of Ballycastle, County Antrim.
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