Although the original recipe is called an apple cake, it’s really a plain soda bread topped with sliced apples and is not what is generally considered a cake. This version is based on an Irish treacle ...

Though not well known in the United States, treacle is sold in the United Kingdom and throughout many former British colonies, in two distinct varieties. Light treacle, known more familiarly as golden ...

Molasses is more commonly known as treacle or if you are in the US it is often called blackstrap molasses. It is a by-product of when sugar cane is crushed and then boiled to make sugar; molasses is ...

This easy loaf is made with an interesting heritage grain Nowt quickens the senses over the Christmas holidays like the scent of baking. This is an inspired recipe, from The Book of Bere: Orkney’s ...

This brown soda bread with stout and treacle just needs butter. Author of The Irish Cookbook, Jp McMahon explains how "bicarbonate of soda helped to feed bread to a generation of soldiers at war in ...

We have a long tradition of growing oats in Ireland. All the way back to before the medieval period, oats were used both for human consumption and also the major fuel for horses during that time.

Nestling somewhere between a parkin and a pound cake, this honey and treacle mixture is heavy with spices, glacé peel and a little orange. It's the sort of loaf cake that you'd eat with a shot of ...