Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Bryt's Find

3 Images of Traditional Irish Food:

Breakfast...

Dessert... (Bread Pudding)

Dinner... (boiled)


1 recipe for Trad. Irish Dish... Soda Bread....

1lb/ 1/2kg/ 4 cups plain flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp sugar (optional)
1pt/ 1/2 lr/ 2 cups buttermilk or sour milk

Sieve the dry ingredients into a large bowl. Scoop up handfuls and allow to drop back into the bowl to aerate the mixture. Add enough buttermilk to make a soft dough. Now work quickly as the buttermilk and soda are already reacting. Knead the dough lightly - too much handling will toughen it, while too little means it won't rise properly.
Form a round loaf about as thick as your fist. Place it on a lightly-floured baking sheet and cut a cross in the top with a floured knife. Put at once to bake near the top of a pre-heated oven, gas mark 8, 450°F, 230°C, for 30-45 minutes. When baked, the loaf will sound hollow when rapped on the bottom with your knuckles. Wrap immediately in a clean tea-towel to stop the crust hardening too much. (http://www.irelandseye.com/aarticles/culture/recipes/cooking/soda.shtm)


3 Images of Irish Art...

Barrie Maguire

(http://www.maguiregallery.com/barrie/images/accordian.jpg)

Louis Le Brocquy

(http://www.upenn.edu/ARG/archive/irish/irish.html)

Sean Keating

(http://www.upenn.edu/ARG/archive/irish/irish.html)



Sligo...

Galway...

Clare...

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