Tuesday 26 August 2008

Our revels now are ended...

The holiday is well and truly over, and we have both been extremely busy all day, doing admin and pastoral visiting, and I have still got a committee meeting to go to. The holiday reminded me how much I like soda bread, so I produced a loaf [plus home-made tomato and lentil soup] for lunch.

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I was really pleased with the way it turned out. I used the recipe from my trusty Be-ro Book.

SODA BREAD

1 lb plain flour

1tspo salt

2 tsp bicarbonate of soda

4 tsp cream of tartar

1oz lard [butter or marg]

2 tsp sugar

½pint milk.

Preheat oven to 200' C

Sieve dry ingredients, run in fat. Add milk, mix to soft dough.

Knead lightly, shape into round

Place on greased baking sheet, slash cross on top with sharp knife.

[at this point, I brushed loaf with milk, and sprinkled with 2 tsp porridge oats]

Bake 30 mins.

The Archers is getting exciting. The Vicar has fallen off his motorbike, and it is his wedding this week!

5 comments:

  1. YUM! I'm going to try this recipe! :)

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  2. It is really easy - but you MUST eat it fresh! We had half the loaf with our soup - and then I made the remainder into toast. The leftover toast I cut into croutons and have stored in an air-tight jar in fridge for my next soup session!

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  3. Oh, wow! Great idea for the left overs! It gets rather cold here in the winter and I thought this bread would go great with soup like you did. :)

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  4. Is there a typo in that? 4lb of flour seems like rather a lot :-)

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  5. Thanks Liz - it should be ONE pound not Four. Well spotted, daughter!

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