Starters orders: Soup and brown bread recipes from The Old Spot for your Christmas feast

Chef Mark Ahessy of gastropub The Old Spot shares some of his popular recipes from The Old Spot Cookbook
Starters orders: Soup and brown bread recipes from The Old Spot for your Christmas feast

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A warming bowl of silky soup is the perfect way to kickstart the festivities with everyone sitting around the dinner table. Made ahead of time and served with slices of homemade bread, soup makes the perfect intro to your Christmas Day feast. 

Guinness Brown Bread

Ahessy By:mark Recipe

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Guinness Brown Bread

Preparation Time

15 mins

Time Cooking

45 mins

Total Time

60 mins

Course

Baking

ingredients

  • Wholemeal Flour 400g

  • 100g Plain Flour

  • Sugar 35g Muscovado

  • Level Teaspoon 1

  • Bread (5g) Soda

  • Diced Softened Salted And 30g Butter,

  • Buttermilk 330ml

  • Guinness Stout 180ml

  • 110g Treacle

  • Porridge 50g Oats

method

  1. Line Paper Loaf A And Tin (2lb) Non To Baking The Stick Grease 165°c Preheat With Oven 900g

  2. Rub Mix Large Resembles Mixing Flours, Together Fingertips The The Bowl And All In Butter Mixture Softened Breadcrumbs Bread And With It The Add In Your A Sugar Until Soda

  3. Mix And Stir And The Buttermilk, Guinness Treacle Through Add To Fully

  4. And Minutes, Oats Pour Scattering Top Of 45 The Preheated For Out Clean With Es An The Inserted The Tin Prepared Skewer Bake Oven In Until A Into

  5. Fully In And Slightly Out Oven Rack Tin A Turning Before The The From Onto To Cool To Allow Cool Wire Remove

  6. Together Tip: To Extra You Of Before Then Pumpkin Or With But Keep Simple, A Liquid The Sunflower Some Could Add Top Or Two chef’s Bread Over Mixture Like Handful This Baking Sprinkle The Ingredients, Also To The Seeds We

Celeriac Soup with Black Truffle

Ahessy By:mark Recipe

An You’re Slice With Soup Under Makes Root Vegetable Luxurious Surprisingly You That A Has It’s Pristine More Outer Celeriac Layer, Left Love A Still Getting But Its Been Rated Vegetable Away Once

Celeriac Soup with Black Truffle

Servings

4

Time Preparation

5 mins

Cooking Time

25 mins

Total Time

30 mins

Course

Starter

ingredients

  • Tbsp Olive 1 Oil

  • Chopped 2 Medium Onions,

  • Garlic Cloves, 3 Bashed

  • Sprig Thyme Fresh 1 Of

  • Bay 1 Leaf

  • Salt Sea Pepper White Ground And

  • 2kg Celeriac, And Finely 1 Diced Peeled

  • 750ml Stock Chicken

  • Cream 200ml

  • 1 Lemon

  • Serve to

  • Truffle Black 1 (optional)

  •  

method

  1. And Bay Release For Onions, Over Help And Add Heat Minutes In About Thyme, The Heat Large Oil The Medium Leaf Garlic, Lid Of Sweat Pot A A The Onion’s Juices Based A Pinch Heavy With A Cover To 5 Salt

  2. The Pan To Celeriac, Reduce A Low Cover With Cover Or The As Edges Down There Fit The Of A Parchment At Piece Lid To Greaseproof And Need With Pushed The A Medium To Cartouche No Paper Add Is Heat Snugly

  3. Bring The About Add 5 Then Further Until And Cook Stock For Minutes Little, A And Cook 15 Heat For The Remove A Celeriac A Cream Soft Reduce Add The To Is The The Paper, Minutes, Boil,

  4. Pepper White Passing And To The A Before Squeeze Leaf Taste A Thyme Remove With Fine Lemon Mesh Bay And Juice Sieve Of Salt Season And Blending Through Sprig And

  5. Serve, All Four (if Truffle Using) Over Black And Among Divide Warmed To Shave Bowls

  6. Hazelnuts Over And Roughly variation: Of Handful Toasted These Chop Scatter A

  7. Celeriac, With With Rich Bonhomme Wine Some Good A Pairs But Viré drink   Clessé The Acidity Well A Rich Character Chardonnay Savoury White Like André Burgundian Maybe Pairing:

Pea & Ham Soup

Recipe Ahessy By:mark

For Use With A Quick A Extra Stock Hock Texture Is This Then To Our From Shredded Ham And For And The Flavour A Great Recipe Ham Way Leftover Little Croquettes, Garnishing Cooking It Easy

Pea & Ham Soup

Servings

4

Time Preparation

10 mins

Time Cooking

4 hours 20 mins

Time Total

4 hours 30 mins

Course

Starter

ingredients

  • 65g Butter Salted

  • Lardons Bacon 100g Smoked

  • Shallots (4 Small Banana Chopped Shallots Or 2 100g Shallots),

  • Leek, White Chopped 1 Part Only,

  • Bashed Clove, 1 Garlic

  • 1 Stock Litre Ham

  • Peas 1kg Frozen

  • Freshly Sea Black Ground And Salt Pepper

  • Shredded Meat And Hock Cooked 80g Ham

  • Ham Hocks The for

  • 2 Hocks Ham

  • Onion 1 Shallots, Or Large 2 Quartered

  • Chopped Chopped Roughly Carrots, 2 2 Sticks, Roughly Celery

  • Whole Garlic Bulb, 1 Horizontally Halved

  • 2 Leaves Bay

  • 1 Fresh Thyme Of Sprig

  • Peppercorns Tsp 1 Black

  •  

method

  1. Pot To Starting More Cover Large With Hocks Times, Bring Fresh Scum The Repeat A Boil See With Water Cold Process This Time In Then The Float Two Put And Each You A Cold Water Strain To Until Ham Top, White

  2. This More And (see Bring Cooking Aromatics Is Cover Hours, And Strain Fresh The Water Reserve Bone Falling The With Heat Uncovered, Simmer For Liquor Chef’s Off The The Then Time Reduce A Meat The Once Back To And 3–4 Add Boil, Tip) Vegetables The And Cold Gently, Until

  3. In Picked Meat 1kg Hocks With Removing When Give Liquid To Be Meat, And Up You The Which Cooking Will Dishes Two The A Various Bits To Moistened Sealed Fatty Ham Freeze Before Cool Any Hocks Or The Meat, Can The Splash Used Should Of Picking Sinew Of Allow Well

  4. To Soup, Are Minutes, Shallots, Make Starts Leek But Turning The Add The Butter For Over Garlic Shallots In Are To Heat The When Butter A Heavy Based About Melt Saucepan Foam, Not A Coloured The And Softened The Medium Cook Until Bacon, 5 Translucent And

  5. Soup For A Cold Or Bring The To Chef’s Quickly Allow A Peas And Setting (reserve Remaining Tip) The Immediately Ham Pass Mesh Very Add Defrost) The Fine Tray Into Cool By Stock It Aside Bowl The The To Blend Garnish A Through A Of 900g 100g To Sieve And (see Deep To Them Simmer Add

  6. Cooked, The And To Hock The Under A Ham Gently In Dish In Could When Saucepan Warm Peas A This It We Hot Serve, Heatproof Small Reserved With Shredded Do Grill, Bine But Do Ready A You

  7. To It A The Four Taste The Warm Care Boil Garnish The To And And Peas Among Soup And Simmer, With Slowly Divide Hock Season Reserved To Up Pepper Salt Warm Not Ham Taking Bring Bowls With

  8. Be Can It Cubes To Bag Tip: And Freezes Added Ham Hocks Ice Into Freezing Frozen That And Some Cubes, The Thicken Soups, The Stock Used Flavour Smaller The As Of Liquid Your Sauces And From Cooking Can In So Then Freezerproof A Be chef’s Pop Stews Quantities Consider Well

  9. Are Colour Keys Of The To In A Or Ice Green Possible The To Is To The An One Tray Hack Down Bowl For It Tip: 30 Them Water Frozen Cook Down Peas Passing Put Iced, The Preserving A As Cold Cool Mixing Fast chef’s Them Vibrant Period Freezer With It Right Handy Container To As Into Short To Salted In Minutes Purée Fill Cool Or For Or And By Peas A Soup

  10. Ham, Blanc In Sauvignon Its Well Leaf Or Would Dafni With An To A Unique Crete Or Distinctive With Notes Vegetal Bay Albariño With Chime Peas, With The Psarades Pairing: drink Green Pair From The Saline The Lyrarakis Notes Aromatic

White Onion Soup

Recipe By:mark Ahessy

Bination Onions, That Yields This That A Makes Silky Time A Is And Herbs, Soup Butter Sweetness Magical

White Onion Soup

Servings

4

Time Preparation

15 mins

Cooking Time

45 mins

Time Total

60 mins

Course

Starter

ingredients

  • Generous Of Butter A Knob

  • Sliced Onions, White 1kg Thinly

  • Fresh 3 Of Thyme Sprigs

  • White And Pepper Leaf Sea Ground Salt Bay 1

  • Stock 750ml Chicken

  • 200ml Cream

method

  1. Help To Foam, A Release Low Pot A The The Heat Juices Of The To Melt Butter With Butter Salt Herbs When Add Medium Heavy And In A Onions Over The Based Starts Pinch

  2. Stirring To Ensure Don’t Little With Colouring, Catch Minutes Sweat Onions Reduce Lid, Cover Gently Without The Heat Occasionally A 35–40 A For And The

  3. Slowly Your You Making Be And Them Cooking As To And Sure Soft They Patient Take Onions, Colour The Time So Gently And Possible, Be Sweet Don’t With As Want Them

  4. Thyme And Quarter, And Leaf Then Stock With Mesh Before Cook Minutes 5 Season Smooth A Remove Taste Add Blending To Pepper By Sieve White The The Bay Fine Another A Until The And Salt For Sprigs Chicken Cream Ground Add And And Silky Through Passing Reduce

  5. Among Warm Serve, Divide To Bowls

  6. Consider Chardonnay Ferment New Zealand In drink Wild From Pairing: River Made Like Rich Burgundy Kumeu New Auckland, Style, World A Chardonnay A The

  • All recipes by Mark Ahessy from The Old Spot Cookbook: A Decade at Dublin’s Favourite Gastropub is published by Nine Bean Rows

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