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Title:How to Make them Goodies
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Created:Tue Feb 18 1986
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4127
Total number of notes:31160

2304.0. "BREAD: Irish Soda Bread" by ASABET::C_AQUILIA () Fri Mar 16 1990 10:14

    this is going to a note a wee bit too late.  i can't even believe that
    there isn't one in here.  irish soda bread.  had some for the first
    time (without the caraway seeds) and loved it.  wish i could make it
    tomorrow with the boiled dinner.  
    
    thanks for any recipes etc.
    
    
    carlajeanne
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2304.1Irish BreadFROSTY::OBRIEN_Jat the tone......Fri Mar 16 1990 10:5218
    Here's an old recipe passed down from my great-grandmother
    
      1 stick margarine
      3 cups flour
      3 teaspoons baking powder
    3/4 teaspoon salt
      1 cup sugar
    
    Blend with pastry blender til it looks like little balls.
    
    Add 1 cup raisins (which you should soak for aprox. 20 minutes,
    drain-this supposedly fattens them up), optional 1 tablespoon caraway
    seeds and 2 eggs mix by hand til sticky consistency.  Makes 2 small
    round loaves.  Spinkle a teaspoon of sugar on each loaf.
    
    Bake @ 400 degrees for 10 minutes, then 375 for 40 to 50 minutes.
    
                                                   
2304.3Check the keywordsREORG::AITELNever eat a barracuda over 3 lbs.Mon Mar 19 1990 10:201
    I know I put a few recipes in here - I keyworded it under BREAD.
2304.4Soda bread without Baking Soda????LOOKUP::ICSGita DeviFri Mar 23 1990 08:294
    Just a question about the recipe:  it calls for baking POWDER, not
    baking SODA.  Is this correct?
    
    - Gita
2304.5CGHUB::OBRIEN_Jat the tone......Fri Mar 23 1990 09:226
    Yes, that's correct.  It can be made with the baking soda, however
    it it too dry -- according to my mother.  I've only made it using
    the baking powder.
    
    Julie
    
2304.6great recipe!!!CHORDZ::WALTERMon Mar 20 1995 09:5313
    Julie,
    
    I made your this bread Saturday for an irish dinner party.  Everyone
    raved about it.  I had to put 1T water into the batter to mix
    correctly, and I also took the bread out at 45 minutes because the
    bottom was burning.  It was incredible and very easy to make.  Thanks
    for entering the recipe!
    
    BTW, how do you store this bread?  It seemed to get very hard the next
    day (although the rest was gone for breakfast).  
    
    Thanks again,
    cj
2304.7PENUTS::DDESMAISONSno, i'm aluminuming 'um, mumMon Mar 20 1995 11:009
  
    cj, I'm curious to see if you'll get a response after five years 8^),
        but ditto!  I made three different types of Irish soda bread on
	Saturday and this was one of them.  It is excellent!  I too had
	to remove it early because the bottom was browning too much, but
	it was no problem.  I froze one of the loaves and am hoping that
	that won't have much of an impact.  

    Diane
2304.8the classic version (historical?)FIEVEL::FILGATEBruce Filgate SHR3-2/W4 237-6452Fri Mar 24 1995 11:0618
 A cup of sugar in Irish soda bread is quite high for the classic bread,
 usually the sugar was none/nil but a cup or two of raisins or some 
 other sweet dried fruit was used for sweetening.

 The classic technique was to cook the bread in a cast iron fry pan.  I 
 have not seen it burn except in light weight pans in electric ovens,
 cast iron in the wood oven appears to work the best for me.

 I suspect the raisins help a little with the storage, they don't dry
 out as fast as the dough does. But the old families used to bake
 bread every day so it was not a problem.

 Bruce