Savory chestnut soup with warm soda bread. Fried whitefish with roses and almonds. Tangy lemon curd and burnt sugar cake. Joanne Asala has collected treasured recipes like these from kitchens throughout Wales, Cornwall, Ireland, Scotland, and England... and has leavened them with homegrown folklore to create a uniquely Celtic feast.

Like a well-stocked larder, Celtic Folklore Cooking offers plenty of tempting choices for daily meals or special celebrations. Pick from more than 200 tasty traditional dishes, all nestled among colorful food-related proverbs, poems, tales, customs, and other nuggets of folk wisdom. Each recipe lists ancient and modern holidays associated with the dish so you can select the perfect fare to complement the season. Recipes include:

• Mushroom and Scallop Pie
• Heather Wine
• Pratie Oaten
• Beestings Pancakes
• Hot Cross buns
• Figgy Pudding
• Boxty on the Griddle
• Barm Brack
• Sweet Scones
• Scotch Eggs
• Colcannon
• Cockle Soup
• Flower Pudding
• Flummery
• Mead

Softcover, 375 pages. 2025 edition of the original 1998 text.