Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Irish soda bread

Happy St. Patty's day! whip up a quick batch of this:

IRISH SODA BREAD

4 cups flour
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
3 Tbs sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1 cup currants or raisins
4 Tbs butter
1 egg
1 3/4 cup buttermilk

0. preheat oven to 400
1. combine dry ingredients
2. cut in the butter with a knife or fingers as for pies. Mix in raisins or currants if desired
3. blend egg and buttermilk and add to the dry ingredients.
4. mix well and knead about 10 times to form a ball.
5. place in a greased cast iron pot and bake 35 min.

serve with an Irish coffee or Guinness.

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