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Aunt Mary's Irish Bread

Source of Recipe

David


Recipe Introduction

If you can't trust a Mary Catherine Gallagher for Irish Soda Bread, who can you trust. This is an old family recipe from my wife's Aunt.

List of Ingredients

AUNT MARY'S IRISH BREAD

4 c Flour*
1 c Sugar
1 t Salt
2 ts Heaping baking powder
1 t Caraway seeds
1 Egg
Buttermilk
2 tb Butter**
1 1/2 c Raisins -- 2 fists
1/2 c Currants
1 c Mixed fruit -- (1/2 lb)
1/4 ts Baking soda





Recipe

*(Fill the sifter are her words) **(a good chunk--her
words) Preheat oven to 400*F Soak raisins and currants
in hot water. Put sugar in a mixing bowl and cut
butter into it. Cut until it looks like white
cornmeal. Put in the caraway seeds Put flour, salt,
baking powder and baking soda into the sifter and sift
into the sugar and butter mix.
If you use the mixed fruit, cut any large pieces and
mix into the flour mixture. Drain the raisins and
currants and dry well.
Mix into the dry ingredients. In a cup measurer, beat
the egg with a fork and fill the cup with buttermilk.
Mix lightly.
Make a hole in dry ingredients and pour in milk and
egg. Mix well until everything is wet and starts to
pull away from the sides of the bowl. Add more liquid
if needed.
Knead slightly to form into a round loaf.
Place loaf in a HOT iron frying pan which has been
greased and floured. Cut a large cross nearly through
the loaf. Bake at 400*F for 10 minutes and lower
temperature to 250*F for another 60 minutes.
Remove from oven and while still hot brush with a
mixture of 5 TBS sugar and 1/4 cup evaporated milk
(mixed well). Turn out onto a rack when cool.