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Summary: A wealth of information and recipes
Review: "Celtic Folklore Cooking" is a treasure chest of information for anyone who is interested in learning about the Celtic hoilday/festival traditions. Asala has done her homework, and shares her wealth of knowledge in an accessible, well organized style. I love to take cookbooks and a cup of tea to bed, just before bedtime, and this is a perfect cookbook for doing just that. Lots of unusual recipes, and great stories with background information.
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Summary: A wealth of information and recipes
Review: "Celtic Folklore Cooking" is a treasure chest of information for anyone who is interested in learning about the Celtic hoilday/festival traditions. Asala has done her homework, and shares her wealth of knowledge in an accessible, well organized style. I love to take cookbooks and a cup of tea to bed, just before bedtime, and this is a perfect cookbook for doing just that. Lots of unusual recipes, and great stories with background information.
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Summary: Good
Review: Absolutely wonderful. I love this book, and everything I have tried out of it has been a smashing success. If you are born again, or object to Pagan references I recommend you look elsewhere, the food is good, but there are pagan references and history of culture that you will not apreciate. For everyone else, understand, this book is full (and I do mean FULL) of recipes from our (Celtic) forfathers, and some from our contemporaries. Mincemeat Parcels with whipped cream, Michaelmas Goose with Sage and Onion Stuffing (delectable), Homemade Irish Cream, Eggnog (nummy), Poacher's Pie, Irish Stew (2 Variations), Venison Soup, Venison Roast, Saffron Cakes, Faerie Cakes, Herbed Honey and Herbed Butter, recipes for making Heather Wine and Dandilion Wine, Spiced Whiskey and non-alcoholic homemade eggnog, Scones and more!
Baked Onions, Cockle and Mussel Stew, Dublin Lawyer (Lobster), Baked Salmon, Roast Pheasant, Duck in Spiced Oranges, Whiskey Fried Steak, Welsh Bubble and Squeak and sooooo much more!!
And sandwiched in between it all, folk stories and history. I LOVE this book!! I can't help but highly recommend it. Enjoy!!
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Summary: Tastey stick-to-your-ribs food and richhistory
Review: Absolutely wonderful. I love this book, and everything I have tried out of it has been a smashing success. If you are born again, or object to Pagan references I recommend you look elsewhere, the food is good, but there are pagan references and history of culture that you will not apreciate. For everyone else, understand, this book is full (and I do mean FULL) of recipes from our (Celtic) forfathers, and some from our contemporaries. Mincemeat Parcels with whipped cream, Michaelmas Goose with Sage and Onion Stuffing (delectable), Homemade Irish Cream, Eggnog (nummy), Poacher's Pie, Irish Stew (2 Variations), Venison Soup, Venison Roast, Saffron Cakes, Faerie Cakes, Herbed Honey and Herbed Butter, recipes for making Heather Wine and Dandilion Wine, Spiced Whiskey and non-alcoholic homemade eggnog, Scones and more!
Baked Onions, Cockle and Mussel Stew, Dublin Lawyer (Lobster), Baked Salmon, Roast Pheasant, Duck in Spiced Oranges, Whiskey Fried Steak, Welsh Bubble and Squeak and sooooo much more!!
And sandwiched in between it all, folk stories and history. I LOVE this book!! I can't help but highly recommend it. Enjoy!!
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Summary: Good
Review: Got this for Christmas from my daughter, who knows I love all things Celtic - especially the authors Caitlin Matthews, and R.J. Stewart. This is a good cookbook. I am not Wiccan nor do I practice any "craft" I simply cook in my kitchen. There are recipes in here for everyone. I tweaked the crescent moon rolls recipe into rugalech, don't like poppy seeds so instead added apricot preserves with cinnamon sugar and they were delicious. No, I'm not Jewish, either; just someone who knows her way around a kitchen and appreciates a good cookbook. This is it. I encourage you to buy it. Enjoy!
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Summary: I agree it is a great book
Review: I agree with the other reviews, and there is not much I can add but I had to vote on it regardless.I am allergic to yeast I was delighted to discover a book with bread recipes that do not contain yeast, I have since learnt that, in the past, nobody used yeast in bread, it is actually an inferior mass-production method to use yeast to make bread rise. After buying the book, I was astounded to see so many wonderful references to Celtic heritage. It was wonderful. The reason I did not give it 5 stars is because I believe some full colour photos of the meals would be nice ... although, at the same time, might detract from the wonderful country feel of the book. I would say this is a very good present for anyone remotely interested in anything Celtic + cooking, it has a wonderful feel to it, warm, enchanting, entertaining you can actually browse through the little tidbits.
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Summary: I agree it is a great book
Review: I agree with the other reviews, and there is not much I can add but I had to vote on it regardless. I am allergic to yeast I was delighted to discover a book with bread recipes that do not contain yeast, I have since learnt that, in the past, nobody used yeast in bread, it is actually an inferior mass-production method to use yeast to make bread rise. After buying the book, I was astounded to see so many wonderful references to Celtic heritage. It was wonderful. The reason I did not give it 5 stars is because I believe some full colour photos of the meals would be nice ... although, at the same time, might detract from the wonderful country feel of the book. I would say this is a very good present for anyone remotely interested in anything Celtic + cooking, it has a wonderful feel to it, warm, enchanting, entertaining you can actually browse through the little tidbits.
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Summary: Good recipes fun book
Review: I belong to pagan group in Helsinki that borrow from mane traditions include finnish, norse, celtic, indian and mane others. We find this book useful because it give the story behind each holiday. It also give mane good recipes for foods to celebrate. I have mane friend from Ireland and they say these good recipes too.
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Summary: Be sure to get 2!
Review: I have purchased this book 5 times now. My friends fall in love with my copy and I end up letting them have it. The recipes and stories are wonderfull. And the food is simply delightful. I have taken to ordering 3 at a time so that I can keep a copy on hand!...
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Summary: A Feast for the Spirit as Well as the Stomach
Review: I'll say right off the bat that this will be a book you'll either love or hate. There isn't another cookbook quite like it, so it's really hard to make comparisons. I personally think its terrific, and my coven has used it on a number of occasions. We've had good luck with the citrus curd, crescent moon rolls, soda bread, tea brack, and baked trout among others. Yum! Asala has taken on the gargantuan task of suggesting traditional Celtic dishes for the festivals of the wheel of the year: Beltane, Samhain, Yule, etc. Some of these dishes do stem from the earliest days of recorded history, others are obviously more recent in origin, so a purist may find it inappropriate to call this a "pagan" cookbook. Still, all religions, even reconstructionist neo-paganism, are fluid in nature and are constantly changing. What's important is the "now." You may still observe the "old" holidays by using "modern" Irish recipes. The recommendations are Asala's own, and I feel they have a lot of merit. She has also managed to distill a lot of other information into one convenient format. The proverbs and songs, especially, can be found in a dozen different collections. But I think she has presented them in a new way by placing them with recipes that they enhance. For example, if one of the recipes has "milk" as the main ingredient, she has linked it with a proverb about cows or milking or added a bit of folklore about cows. So I consider this book as a good jumping off point into celtic mythology and culinary history. If you want to learn just about the foods, find a book that is strictly a cookbook. If you want to learn more about folk sayings, check out an old proverb collection or poetry book like Carmina Gadelica. But if you want to find new, creative ways to celebrate the gods and goddesses than this is the book for you. Even if you don't agree with everything she says, there is enough Celtic pagan and Christian folklore to entertain and inform any reader -- and I can say for myself the food is great!
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