[Sca-cooks] Irish Soda Bread

[Deborah Hammons]

Well, it depends on what you call flat bread.  You would be surprised how
many people only think of pita or naan.  I personally wouldn't call it a
flat bread.  Not a yeast leavened bread to be sure.

Aldyth

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:51 PM, <yaini0625 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Is there a difference between Irish soda bread and flat bread?
> Aelina
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> There's a number of good recipes using King Arthur flour products
> on their website. One thing to do is just go there and search under
> Irish:
>
> http://search.kingarthurflour.com/?N=0&rt=r&Ntt=irish&x=0&y=0
>
> The Irish-American soda bread recipe states:
> "This sweet, rich version of Irish soda bread is more in tune with
> American tastes than the traditional Irish bread, which simply
> combines flour, baking soda, salt, and buttermilk."
>
> Now why do I feel like baking?
>
> Johnnae
>
> On Mar 18, 2010, at 1:23 PM, Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
> wrote:snipped
> > But yes, sugar is a dough tenderizer and fat of any kind is a
> > shortening, which tends, in practical terms, to limit the potential
> > for toughness. There may also be the question of whether American AP
> > flour is made from harder wheat than what Irish soda bread is made
> > from in Ireland.
> > My experience is that the additions to the formula begin to occur
> > once the recipe leaves Ireland. Malachy McCormick, whose judgement I
> > trust in these matters, settled the issue pretty well for me in his
> > books by simply providing a very straightforward, simple, and
> > unadorned version of brown bread, and leaving all the currants,
> > sugar, butter, and caraway seed nonsense for the white version. And
> > a separate category for yeast-raised "batch bread", as I recall.
> >
> > Adamantius
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