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Irish Soda BreadPosted on 31st January 2013 (http://www.thelondoner.me/2013/01/irish-soda-bread.html)

Iam not actually English.

Im a sort of hybrid-mix of Celtic genes. I have family from Wales, Scotland & Ireland,everywhere in Britain except England.

Sadly I seem to have missed out on every accent and have a sort of nondescript, British one

Anyway! The perks involve killer secret family recipes, like this one for Irish soda bread.

It takes about half an hour to whip up, no kneading, no yeast, nohassle and youre left with 2big, comforting delicious loaves of bread. One for freezin, one for eatin.

Delicious with a little butter, pat or a good smear of avocado for a quick lunch.
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Its a delicious, healthy loaf peppered with cranberries & pine nuts. This recipe makes twoloaves and isperfectfor anyone who has never made bread before, trust me this bad boy is

worth popping your cherry cranberry for.

Youll need:

1.5lbs wholemeal flour

1.5tsp bicarbonate of soda (USA -baking soda, notbaking powder)

1.5tsp salt

1pints butter milk (if you cant get buttermilk, you can add the juice of 1 lemon to fullfat

milk)

4oz pine kernels 4oz dried cranberries

Pre-heat your oven to 200C/400F. Add you flour, salt & bicarb to a big mixing bowl.


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Throw in your nuts & berries.


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Pour in your buttermilk.


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Mix together until combined, but not too much you dont want to overwork it. Once you havea fairly unattractive dough, youre done. If its a bit wet, add a little more flour. Flour asurface and pop your dough onto it.


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Half it.


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Roll lightly in the flour, shape into a ball, place onto a baking tray and flatten a little.


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Repeat with your second loaf. Cut a shallow cross into the tops. Supposedly this is to keepthe devil out (apparently he must love soda bread) but it also helps with heat distribution sodont skip it.


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Pop them into your oven for about half an hour. Just before they finish, wet two tea towels &wring them out so theyre just damp, not wet.


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Remove your loaves & wrap them in the tea towels.


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This will give you a lovely crust & stop it from getting too crunchy. In the old days youd walk

through the village & see all the cottages with wrapped loaves cooling on the windowsills.When in Rome


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When theyve cooled down, youre ready to slice into them.


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Good local butter, or my favourite avo & salt.


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Just like mamma used to make!

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