DISH RESEARCH · Bread
Barmbrack
Also known as: báirín breac
Spiced yeast fruit bread with sultanas, currants and a sugar glaze.
About Barmbrack
Darina Allen recalls making this Irish Halloween barmbrack during childhood celebrations. The yeast bread is speckled with sultanas, currants and chopped candied peel.
Cinnamon, mixed spice and nutmeg flavour the enriched dough. Butter, milk and egg contribute richness, with sugar in the dough and a separate sweet glaze.
The glazed loaves are cut into thick slices after cooling. The source serves them generously buttered, with dried fruit distributed through the bread.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Milk, Egg.
Product-dependent or unconfirmed: Wheat (gluten).
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Barmbrack
Darina Allen’s Irish Halloween yeast barmbrack.
- White flourBase
- Ground cinnamonAromatic
- Mixed spiceAromaticIngredient page not linked
- NutmegAromatic
- SaltSeasoning
- ButterCooking medium
- Dried yeastBinder
- Caster sugarSweetener
- MilkLiquid
- EggBinder
- SultanasBase · Fruit
- CurrantsBase · Fruit
- Mixed chopped candied peelBase · Fruit
- SugarSweetener · Glaze
- WaterLiquid · Glaze
- Unspecified loaf-tin greaseCooking medium · Pan preparationIngredient page not linked
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- White flour: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat (gluten) unconfirmed. Source generic white flour; cereal not explicitly named, exact product unprovided.
- Ground cinnamon: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Mixed spice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Exact mixed-spice blend unprovided.
- Nutmeg: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Butter: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual dough butter plus generous serving butter155; no unnamed pan grease assumed butter.
- Dried yeast: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit dried alternative85 selected over fresh yeast; exact dried type unreported.
- Caster sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual dough fine sugar86.
- Milk: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed
- Egg: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Egg source-confirmed
- Sultanas: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Broader raisin link; exact sultana form retained.
- Currants: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Dried currants in dried-fruit context153, not fresh berry substituted.
- Mixed chopped candied peel: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Exact mixed candied peel, full citrus/product formula unknown.
- Sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit glaze water102/155; no damp-cloth liquid inferred.
- Unspecified loaf-tin grease: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit greased tins153, fat unreported.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Ireland
- IrelandCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Irish Cuisine
- Irish CuisineCatalogue link pending review
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