
Viking Age butter
Cream agitated until its fat globules join into a solid mass and release buttermilk, the dairy fat a northern household could concentrate, salt and keep when milk itself would not last.
Recipes by the places recorded in their sources.

Cream agitated until its fat globules join into a solid mass and release buttermilk, the dairy fat a northern household could concentrate, salt and keep when milk itself would not last.

A modern tomato condiment sharpened with the spicy, savoury tang associated with kimchi; this measured version whisk-mixes prepared ketchup and commercial kimchi seasoning.

A source-specific Irish quick loaf of plain flour, bicarbonate of soda, buttermilk, egg and butter, mixed briefly and baked as a cross-marked round.

Butter packed into wooden containers and buried in cool, wet peat in Ireland and Scotland, a practice known from finds that may reflect storage, concealment or ritual.

An Irish fruit-studded yeast loaf, associated in a contemporary cultural account with Halloween and often served fresh or toasted with butter.

A home adaptation of a measured blaa recipe attributed to Waterford baker Dermot Walsh: plain yeast dough, rounded portions flattened on a tray, generously dusted with flour and baked. Home baking does not confer Waterford Blaa PGI status.

Burren Smokehouse’s colcannon dish serves hot-smoked salmon with mashed potatoes, cabbage, stir-fried vegetables and mustard cream.