Some recipes to share...

Seeing that I haven't been crafting lately and St. Patrick's day is only a week a way, I thought I would post some Irish themed recipes over the next week. Here's the first one:

Guinness Burgers

5lbs of beef mince, 

1 small onion finely chopped,

1 clove of garlic grated, 

¼ can of Guinness draught

2 tbsp tomato sauce or paste, 

salt, 

ground black pepper

Put all the ingredients in a bowl, add half the Guinness

and mix well.

Roll into 10 burger shapes

Place the burgers onto a hot BBQ and cook for 6-7 minutes

Brush the burgers with the remaining Guinness

Turn burgers and cook for a further 6-7 minutes

Serve in a warm bun with all your favourite trimmings

*These can be made on a pan instead of a bbq

and here's another:

Irish Porter Cake

450g plain flour 

1 tsp grated nutmeg

1 tsp mixed spice 

1 tsp baking powder

pinch of salt 

225g butter

225g brown sugar 

450g raisins

75g candied peel 

2 eggs

1 x 330ml bottle of porter/stout (e.g. Guinness)

Preheat oven to 180c/350f. Line the sides & base of a 20cm round

cake tin with greaseproof paper. Sieve the first four ingredients

together. Rub in the butter, then stir in the sugar, raisins & candied

peel. Whisk the porter/stout & the eggs together. Pour into the dry

ingredients & mix well. Empty into the prepared tin & bake for about

2 hours. The cake is cooked when a skewer inserted into the centre

comes out clean. Allow to sit in the tin for 20 minutes before turning

out onto a wire rack.

Thanks for stopping by :)