No, she’s not much of a baker, but she will go to the local St. Paddy’s day parade in whatever city she finds herself at that time. My mother’s mother, Mary Rita, is 100% Irish and very proud of it. Her grandparents parents came over from Ireland, helped build the sewers in NYC (can you imagine!?), then moved on and bought land in Minnesota, where the family still resides. They became farmers and builders, architects in more ways than one. My Grandmother likes to be called Grammie and as I am the oldest of all her grandchildren, I found myself starting the trend amongst all my cousins. She’s always so much fun to be around; she loves to read, she appreciates fashion, color, and interior design (and does them all very well) and had six kids to boot! She travels a lot to visit her brood, thus finding herself in either Washington DC (where 3 of her children live, plus grandkids), Florida (where she currently resides), or some other city around the country (she went to Tampa last year for their big St. Paddy’s day parade with her girlfriends).
I found this recipe online and decided to give it a whirl. The recipe is said to be from a woman in Ireland named Rosie, so I thought, Great! Authenticity! However, I think this week I am going to try another Irish Soda Bread recipe, maybe two, to not only find the one that I remember Irish Soda Bread to taste like, but as an ode to my hard-working Irish side. This one was a bit too cakey, not as crumbly and scone-like as I remember it to be. Not bad, but not what I was imagining.
Do you have a great Irish Soda Bread Recipe? Let’s have a soda bread bake off this week and see who is happiest with their recipe! Feel free to share, I’d love to try yours!
Happy St. Patrick’s day!
Rosie’s Irish Soda Bread (from here)
3 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 pint sour cream
2 eggs
3/4 cup raisins (I prefer golden raisins)
In a small bowl beat eggs and stir in sour cream.
Add the egg and sour cream mixture to the dry ingredients and stir with a wooden spoon.
Batter will be very thick.
Add the raisins and caraway seeds and stir well with wooden spoon or knead in with your hands.
Place batter in a greased 9 inch springform pan.
Dust the top with enough flour so that you can pat the batter like a bread dough evenly in the pan without it sticking to your ha
Combine dry ingredients together in a large bowl.
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With a knife make a shallow crisscross on the top.
Bake for 50 minutes in a preheated 350ºF oven.
Bain sult as! (Enjoy! in Gaelic)
