this post by the Irish American Mom<\/a> pointing out what is and is not actually barmbrack. I love her soap-box (delivered in a completely enjoyable way) and the history she provides on this bake, so I wanted to make sure and share in case anyone else is becoming as obsessed with variations on fruitbread\/fruitcake as I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello! I hope y’all’s Halloween was as lovely as mine! As the first of the feasting holidays (in my house), I busied myself making seasonally appropriate meals with in-season foods and baking. One of the bakes I have been slowly perfecting for myself is barmbrack. The recipe I have is rather old and super spare… Continue reading Barmbrack<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[158,48,106],"class_list":["post-10408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-halloween","tag-holiday","tag-recipes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8615,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2020\/09\/21\/mother-shipton-comic\/","url_meta":{"origin":10408,"position":0},"title":"Mother Shipton comic","author":"leems","date":"September 21, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"I drew a comic about Ursula Southeil, aka Mother Shipton, for my contribution to the Four Corners Halloween zine. 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