Irish cuisine a low starch content. Many elements of Irish cuisine were lost or abandoned during that time, with the loss being particularly acute between the Great Famine of the mid 19th century and the mid 20th century. By the 21st century, much of Irish cuisine was being revived. Representative traditional Irish dishes include Irish stew (made with lamb, mutton, or goat), bacon and cabbage (with potatoes), boxty (potato pancake), coddle (sausage, bacon, and potato), colcannon (mashed potato, kale or cabbage, and butter), and, in Ulster, the soda farl. Modern Irish Food still uses these traditional ingredients but they are now being
Buttermilk cultured buttermilk to simulate residual flecks of butter that can be left over from the churning process of traditional buttermilk. Cultured buttermilk, often known simply as "buttermilk" now, was first commercially introduced in the United States in the 1920s. It was popular among immigrants, and viewed as a food that could slow aging. It reached peak annual sales of in 1960. Buttermilk's popularity has declined since then, despite an increasing population, and annual sales in 2012 reached less than half that number. Condensed buttermilk and dried buttermilk have increased in importance in the food industry. Buttermilk solids are used in