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Mabon Feast

28 Sep 2020

Mabon Feast

Festivals, Recipes, Traditions

We have an easy to make set of recipes to create your own Mabon feast with friends and family, and we’ve included a video of some of them being prepared! Not sure what the Mabon festival is? Check out the post all about it here!

Firecracker Green Beans

  • 3T Irish butter
  • 1 handful of fresh green beans per person, or 1 can of strained green beans per 3 persons
  • 1T of garlic salt
  • 1t of granulated garlic
  • red chili powder to taste

Warm a frying pan over medium heat, add butter until melted then add the green beans, garlic salt, granulated garlic, and red chili powder.

Cook until the skin of the beans begins browning.

Serve, enjoy.

Heart Stopper Mash

  • 1lb of red russet potatoes, partially skinned (Peel 2/3rds of the skin), quartered
  • 3T sea salt
  • Whole milk
  • Half a stick of butter
  • 1-2 cups of Irish cheddar (thinly sliced or shredded)
  • 1T granulated garlic
  • 1t garlic salt
  • 2T sea salt
  • 2t black pepper

Bring water and sea salt to boil, adjust to medium-high heat, and add your potatoes.

Boil until you can smoothly push a fork through the large pieces

Drain water, keep 8-12 ounces of the starched boiling water to add back in later

Place the pot back over medium heat, add enough whole milk to cover the potatoes, butter, cheddar, granulated garlic, garlic salt, sea salt, and black pepper.

Stir until melted, then remove from heat, set the pan on a heat resistant towel, and mash in the heated pan VERY CAREFULLY. If the potatoes need more liquid add in the starched water saved from the boil.

The Will of the Pig

  • 1 whole pork loin
  • 2t salt
  • 2t seasoned salt
  • 2t onion powder
  • 2t red chili powder
  • Maple syrup (to drizzle)
  • 2 gala or other cooking apples (skinned, finely chopped or thinly sliced)

Take the pork loin and slice it down the middle. Stuff it with the apples then rub the exterior with salt, seasoned salt, onion powder, and red chili powder bound with maple syrup (Small amounts. Don’t overwhelm the apples).

Bake at 375F until golden brown. Then for another 30 minutes at 250F.

Remove from the oven and let it rest for 5 minutes before slicing.

I Ain’t Chicken

  • Package of chicken breasts in half or a whole chicken
  • 1T minced garlic
  • 2t sage
  • 2t rosemary
  • 3T mayonnaise

Mix garlic, sage, rosemary, and mayonnaise into a small bowl then coat the bird with it (under the skin if it still has it).

For a whole chicken, bake at 350F until the skin is golden brown then let it rest in the oven for 20 minutes at 175 before serving.

For chicken breasts, bake at 350F for 45min, remove and let rest for one minute before slicing.

Heart Stopper Mash, Firecracker Green Beans, and I Ain’t Chicken

Mabon Dragon Spice Cider

  • 10 large apples, quartered
  • 1/2 orange, halved
  • 4 cinnamon sticks
  • 1 tsp. cloves
  • 1 tsp. whole allspice
  • 1 whole nutmeg
  • 1/2 c. packed brown sugar
  • Irish Whiskey (optional)

In a large stockpot over medium heat, add apples, oranges, spices, and brown sugar. Cover with water by at least 2”.

Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer, covered, 2 hours. 

Remove orange halves, then use a potato masher or wooden spoon to mash apples.

Return to a simmer and let simmer uncovered for 1 hour more.

Strain through a fine-mesh strainer, pressing on solids with a wooden spoon to squeeze all juices out. Discard solids. 

Serve apple cider warm.

Add 2 ozs of Irish Whiskey for the adults, serves as is for the little ones.

Mabon Apple Harvest Cake

  • 340gms/12oz self-raising flour
  • a pinch of salt
  • 225gms/8oz margarine or butter
  • ½t cinnamon
  • 170gms/6oz caster sugar
  • 115gms/4oz sultanas
  • 450gms/16oz cooking apples, finely chopped
  • 3 eggs
  • a little milk
  • a little apple or raw cane sugar

Rub the butter into the flour and salt. Add the sugar and cinnamon.

Make a well in the mixture and drop in the egg and fruit. Mix well. If the dough is a little too stiff, add some milk.

Place in an eight-inch greased cake tin and sprinkle a little demerara sugar on the top.

Bake for 1 1/2 to 2 hours at 350F until cooked. Allow it to cool slightly before turning out onto a cooling rack.

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