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
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Preparation Time
15 minsTime Cooking
45 minsTotal Time
60 minsCourse
Bakingingredients
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
Line Paper Loaf A And Tin (2lb) Non To Baking The Stick Grease 165°c Preheat With Oven 900g
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Celeriac Soup with Black Truffle
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Servings
4Time Preparation
5 minsCooking Time
25 minsTotal Time
30 minsCourse
Starteringredients
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
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Pea & Ham Soup
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
Servings
4Time Preparation
10 minsTime Cooking
4 hours 20 minsTime Total
4 hours 30 minsCourse
Starteringredients
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
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White Onion Soup
Bination Onions, That Yields This That A Makes Silky Time A Is And Herbs, Soup Butter Sweetness Magical
Servings
4Time Preparation
15 minsCooking Time
45 minsTime Total
60 minsCourse
Starteringredients
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
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
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- All recipes by Mark Ahessy from The Old Spot Cookbook: A Decade at Dublin’s Favourite Gastropub is published by Nine Bean Rows