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Irish Soda Bread

Vegetarian Epicure
Vegetarian Epicure, Adapted and Halved
  1. Sift the following dry ingredients together:
  2. 4 cups flour
  3. 1 T baking powder
  4. 1 t baking soda. If using yogurt in wet ingredients (below), use 1 1/4 t baking soda.
  5. 1 t salt
  6. 1/4 t cardamon or coriander
  7. Add 1 cup currants to dry ingredients.
  8. Beat the following wet ingredients together:
  9. 1 egg
  10. 1 3/4 c buttermilk, or 1 1/4 c yogurt and 3/4 c water.
  11. Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and stir briefly. Knead a few minutes until smooth.
  12. Divide into two parts and form each into a flattened round. Place each round into a small greased cake pan and slash a cross on top, about 1/2 inch deep.
  13. Bake at 375 degrees F. for 35-40 minutes.
  1. Dry ingredients into a 2-cup measure:
  2. Heaping T wheat germ, if using white flour
  3. Heaping T buttermilk powder (optional)
  4. 1/2 T baking powder
  5. 1/2t baking soda
  6. 1/2 t salt
  7. 1/8 t cardamon
  8. Top off with flour (white or brown)
    9. Sift dry ingredients together into a large bowl.
  9. Add 1/2 c currants to dry ingredients, if desired.
  10. Wet ingredients into a one-cup measure:
  11. One egg
  12. Top off with milk, buttermilk, yogurt, water.
    13. Beat wet ingredients together in a small bowl.
  13. Stir wet ingredients into dry. Knead for a minute, until smooth.
  14. Form into a flattened round about 1 or 1 1/2 inch thick. Place into a round, greased cake pan and slash a shallow cross on top.
  15. Bake at 375 degrees for 35-40 minutes.
  16. Alternate: make into 2" thick kneaded cake. Cook at 350 degrees for 35 minutes.
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  1. Sift dry ingredients into a large bowl:
  2. 1t baking soda
  3. 1 t salt
  4. 1 t sugar
  5. 4 c white flour
    6. Scoop up handfuls and allow to drop back into bowl to aerate.
  6. Add 2 c buttermilk to dry ingredients (or enough to make a soft dough).
  7. Knead quickly and lightly.
  8. Form round loaf as thick as your fist.
  9. Place on lightly floured baking sheet and cut cross in top.
  10. Bake at 450 degrees 30 - 45 minutes. When done, loaf will sound hollow when rapped on the bottom.
  11. Wrap in a clean tea cloth to keep from drying out.
  1. Mix together:
  2. 1/2 c softened butter
  3. 1/2 c sugar
  4. 1 T anise seed
  5. 1 T baking powder
  6. 1 t baking soda
  7. 1 t salt
  8. 4 c flour
  9. Two eggs
  10. 1 1/2 c raisins
  11. 2 c buttermilk
  12. Pour into 2 large or four small loaf pans. Cook at 350 degrees F for one hour.