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- From: hendler@harvard.harvard.edu (David Hendler)
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- Subject: RECIPE: Irish soda bread
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- Date: 18 Sep 87 03:09:01 GMT
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- Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, Mass., USA
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE SODA-BREAD B "15 Apr 87" 1987
- .RZ "IRISH SODA BREAD" "Two white soda loaves"
- This is a basic soda bread, following the Irish mode. I scaled up
- the recipe from one of Beard's, and changed it some. It is quite
- crusty, and really all-purpose. This soda bread takes around a third
- the time and a half the effort of a comparable yeast bread. Since no
- yeast bread is much like it, I don't know what would be comparable.
- People who have never tried a soda bread will note many differences, like
- the order you add things (flour and then the liquid...).
- .IH "2 loaves"
- .IG "8 cups" "white flour (unbleached)" "800 g"
- .IG "3\-4 cups" "buttermilk," "8\-10 dl"
- at room temperature
- .IG "1 tsp" "salt" "5 ml"
- .IG "2 tsp" "baking powder" "10 ml"
- .IG "1.5 tsp" "baking soda" "7.5 ml"
- .IG "1 cup" "currants" "150 g"
- (optional)
- .IG "1 tsp" "butter or oil" "5 ml"
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
- .SK 2
- Preheat the oven to
- .TE 350 175 .
- .SK 3
- Stir in buttermilk, a cup at a time. You should make a fairly
- soft dough that will nonetheless hold its shape. Thus, you may need
- the full amount of buttermilk.
- .SK 4
- Turn the dough out onto a well-floured board (this is a stock phrase;
- do it anyway). Knead until it is smooth and soft, probably about 7
- minutes. You should have to keep adding a little flour to the board
- for the first few minutes to keep the dough from sticking.
- .SK 5
- Are you using currants? Knead them in, then. Or don't, accordingly.
- .SK 6
- Tear the dough in half. Form each half into a ball. With a
- knife, slash a cross in the top.
- .SK 7
- Place the balls, cross up, well apart, on a greased baking sheet.
- .SK 8
- Put this sheet, bread side up, into the oven.
- .SK 9
- Bake for 35 or 40 minutes.
- The loaves are done when they sound hollow at a knocking hand. They
- should also get to be a nice light brown color. The cross will split
- open, and the resultant points will get hard and dark brown. Soda
- bread has a tendency to crack in the oven. This is no big deal.
- .SH NOTES
- You can substitute, per James Beard's recommendation, about 4 cups of
- whole-wheat flour for half the white. Since this will be heavier, use
- about 40% more baking powder. The bread made this way is markedly different.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- easy to moderate.
- .I Time:
- 30 minutes building, 45 minutes baking.
- .I Precision:
- Measure the ingredients.
- .WR
- David Hendler
- Aiken Computation Lab (Harvard Univ.)
- hendler@harvard.harvard.edu
-