Theme Day - Irish Soda Bread

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Here is an irish recipe - for Irish Soda Bread. I just found it while I

was surfing for something completely different:

 

Nellie O'Leary's Irish Soda Bread

 

approx prep time: 30 min

baking: 1 hour

submitted by: Nancy Davis

 

ingredients:

4 cups all-purpose flour

1 cup sugar

4 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp baking soda

1 stick melted butter (1/4 lb)

1-1/2 cups raisins

2 Tbsp caraway seeds

1-1/2 cups buttermilk

1 egg, slightly beaten

 

Stir together the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and baking soda. Mix

in the melted butter, raisins and caraway seeds. Combine buttermilk with

slightly beaten egg.

 

Make a well in the center of the batter. Pour liquid in and stir into

flour mixture. Do not overmix.

 

Place dough in large cast-iron frying pan, well-buttered. Use a knife to

make a cross on the top, cutting two deep gashes. Moisten with melted

butter.

 

Bake at 375F (200C) for an hour, or until golden brown (the dough will

shrink from the sides of the skillet as it nears done-ness).

 

From Nellie T. O'Donoghue O'Leary, who came through Ellis Island in 1920

from the Irish village of Rathmore.

 

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