McCann's Rich Fruit Barmbrack

Baked to a traditional Irish Recipe. McCann's Luxury Barm Brack, a blend of fruits and spices, matured with Black Bush Special Old Irish Whiskey, ideal for afternoon tea or a nightime snack.

The Irish term for cake centuries ago was 'Bairgin' and if the 'Bairgin' contained rich currants and raisins it became a 'Bairgin Brack' or speckled cake, now more commonly known as Barm Brack. Barm Brack is unusual in the sense that it does not follow the traditional loaf shape and instead of being oblong is round.

In bygone days Barm Brack was traditionally eaten at Halloween in Ireland (on All Saints Day), when a host of myths and customs surrounded the product. Several unusual ingredients would have been included in the traditional Halloween brack: a pea, a bean, a little piece of cloth (symbolizing a rag), a stick and a Cladagh ring.
The eating of the Barm Brack then became an event of household theatre: if you got the rag, you were destined to be poor; the pea meant you'd be an old maid; the bean a bachelor; the stick a fighter, and the ring meant you'd be wed within the year. Difficult to decide which is the worst fate!!