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From: "Virginia W. Beck" <>
Subject: Re: Irish Soda Bread
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 11:51:16 -0700


I have an extensive cookbook collection, dating to 1908, but could not find
a single reference to Soda Bread in any of them. Does anyone have an
authentic, basic recipe, that one would use every day? Virginia.
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From: Edward Andrews <>
To: <>
Date: Sunday, September 27, 1998 8:34 AM
Subject: Re: Irish Soda Bread

> wrote:
>>
>> I received this recipe for Irish Soda Bread and was wondering if anyone
could
>> tell me if it is accurate. I tried the recipe and it is WONDERFUL!! (A
>> friend of mine from Ireland is getting a big KICK out my attempt to get
to
>> know my Irish roots...so before I bake this for him...just wanted to be
>> accurate...LOL)
>>
> Oh boy the Irish must have been living well. My wife, who was taught
>to make Soda by her mother - actually in Ireland does it thus.
>
> 12 oz plain flour
> 1.5 teaspoons Baking soda
> 1 teaspoon salt.
> (It appears that the flour baking soda ratio is the crucial one.)
> Sieve together into a bowl.
> Make a well in the middle and add Buttermilk as required to make a
>soft elastic dough.
> This is where the skill comes in.
>Beat thoroughly with a metal spoon until smooth.
> Roll out about 1 ins thick kind of circle.
> Cut into 4.
> Cook on a griddle (Hot Plate), cooking both sides and finish with
>farl on end. It is cooked when it sounds hollow when tapped.
>
> This is a Country Antrim recipe, but it is the kind sold extensively
>not only in Ulster
> There is also oven soda, which is similar.
> Sometimes oven soda has dried fruit mixed it, but not the spices.
>Neither are eggs used in either soda recipe
> I would suggest that the recipe which you have given us is for a Tea
>Loaf.
> Remember soda was the usual daily bread, what you have is all
>together more luxurious.
> I think that Charles's is for a permutation of Potato Bread or fadge.
>Edward Andrews
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