From: pemb0471@sable.ox.ac.uk (Janet McKnight)
Subject: Soda Bread
Date: 19 Jan 1999 13:30:37 GMT


I've made this a couple of times now and it's nice, and very easy (recipe
taken from a book called something like "Look, Play and Learn"... bits
about asking an adult to take the bread out of the oven have been omitted)

Soda Bread
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Ingredients:
	8 oz. strong wholemeal flour
	1/4 pt milk [1]
	1 tsp salt
	1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda

Method:
	Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Grease a baking tray.
	Mix dry ingredients together. Add milk to make dough. If dough is
	too dry, add a little warm water [2]. Form the dough into a ball
	and place it on the baking tray. Flatten it slightly, then make a
	deep cross in it with a knife.
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	Place a small deep cake tin over the dough and bake for 30 mins.
	Then remove cake tin "lid" and bake for a further 10 minutes or so 
	to get a nice golden crust on it.

	Eat it while it's still WARM and it's lovely. Let it go cold and
	it's like a rock. :-)

[1] Soda bread is traditionally made with slightly sour milk... what
better way to use up that slightly off milk in your studenty fridge before
it revolts and takes over your kitchen? (I should point out that I've
never actually *tried* making it with off milk...)