March 20, 2012

TWD Irish Soda Bread


Appropriately for March comes this week's TWD recipe for Irish soda bread.  I used to work with an Irish colleague who would bring it in to the office every now and then.  I never managed to partake mainly because it just seemed so dense and heavy.    As I dove in to the Baking With Julia recipe I was hoping my preconceptions were off-base.

Ummm....not quite so much.  Now don't get me wrong, it wasn't terrible and it looked great, but I just wasn't feeling any love for the soda bread.  It sort of reminded me of a spongy communion wafer with fruit.  Apologies if I've offended any Irish folks out there or my devout Mom; maybe I just made a bad batch.   But if you'd like to make the Irish soda bread for yourself you can get the recipe at Chocolate Moosey and My Culinary Mission

9 comments:

  1. I love this recipe! Compared to the "Rugelach-mission" it was a piece of cake, sorry, bread!
    Your bread looks great!

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  2. Definitely a dense bread. I enjoyed it, but only after maing some drastic changes to the recipe.

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  3. Your Bread looks Lovely ... !!! Great job !!!! I never thought baking a bread can get that easy !!!

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  4. Wow. This looks seriously delicious. I lose my mind over bread. So good

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  5. You made a beautiful loaf of bread!
    Nice photography!

    ~ Carmen
    http://bakingismyzen.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/twd-baking-with-julia-irish-soda-bread

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  6. I had to laugh when you compared it to a communion wafer. There's a treat made in Mexico that's dulce de leche between two wafers. My uncle brought a bag of it home with him and as we all tasted it, we felt like we were doing something wrong - the wafers were the same taste and texture as Communion wafers!

    Sorry you didn't enjoy it - the loaf looks beautiful. I especially like your first photo.

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  7. I'll take any leftovers off your hands...looks great to me!

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  8. your bread still looks great even though you didn't enjoy as much as you would have hoped ;) I love that you baked it in a cast iron, I wish I'd thought of that!

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  9. Spongy communion wafer :-) Funny
    Sorry this wasn't a hit for you

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