Monday, October 31, 2011

Recipe for Halloween Tea Brack


Halloween Tea Brack

Ingredients
• 300 ml cold tea
• 4 tsp. Irish whiskey
• 110 g sultanas
• 220 g currants or raisins
• 55 g chopped glacĂ© cherries
• 55 g chopped mixed peel
• 200 g brown sugar
• 225 g self-raising flour
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1 tsp. ground Nutmeg

Method
1. Place the cold tea and whiskey in a bowl. Add in the sultanas, currants, glace cherries and mixed peel. Cover and set aside to soak overnight.

2. Preheat the oven to 180°C/gas 4/ 350 F.

3. In a mixing bowl, mix together the sugar, self-raising flour, beaten egg, nutmeg and soaked fruit, with its soaking liquid until well-mixed.

4. Transfer the mixture to a loaf tin lined with baking paper.

5. Bake for 1 hour, 30 minutes until risen and set.

6. Remove from the oven and cool for 10 minutes in its tin, then turn out and cool on a wire rack.

7. Serve in slices with butter

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Dublin Living Awards 2011


Ariel House is delighted to be nominated as a finalist in the very first Dublin Living Awards. The Awards are to celebrate the Dublin businesses, organisations and people that make Dublin a great place to live work and visit. The competition organisers have had a brilliant response, the entries have been counted and the finalists have been chosen by the panel of judges. Now it is over to the Dublin public to decide the winners. As a finalist in the Hotel and Guesthouse category Ariel House would really appreciate your support. Please vote for Ariel House in the Dublin Living Awards using the link www.dublinlivingawards.ie/vote/7 or TEXT: Hotel followed by Ariel House to 51500