Tuesday, March 20, 2012

TwD - Irish Soda Bread - Baking with Julia

Irish Soda Bread is good and its easy to make!  You don't need specialty ingredients, unless you consider buttermilk a specialty ingredient and I don't but then I keep it in my freezer in one cup containers.  After years of throwing away unused buttermilk I had an 'aha' moment and realized I could freeze it!  I have used the dried buttermilk powder with good results but  I have a prejudice against dried milk products.  Maybe I need to get over that...

Cathy and Carla are our hostesses this month and you can find the recipe on their blogs.  All of the bakers in Tuesdays with Dorie have interested stories to tell so check them out!

This made a nice breakfast bread and I used the rest of my apricot lekvar from our rugelach experience.

Spring has come early to Oklahoma and we are loving it!  I have potatoes planted but I'm afraid I've waited too long to get my other cool weather veggies planted.  We've had storms the past couple of days but this morning everything is wet and beautiful.  Could our drought be ending?  We're hopeful!

7 comments:

  1. Well, I learn something new everyday. I never knew you could freeze buttermilk. Your bread looks delicious, especially with the lekvar.
    Hope the drought ends soon.

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  2. Guyla, Beautiful bread! This was easy but so delicious! I made two…one with raisins and sugar, and one plain!

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  3. Very lovely! Great use for that leftover lekvar :-)

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  4. Your bread looks tasty! I loved the ease of this recipe.

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  5. Beautiful bread you made! Thanks for the tip of freezing the extra buttermilk. I always wondered if that was an option. Though not sure if I'll have leftovers anymore that I know I can whip up this bread in a moments notice! Loved this recipe.

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  6. Lovely photo! I just heard about freezing buttermilk last week, and I'm thrilled to know that it works. I always end up throwing it away.

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  7. That's a great idea to freeze your buttermilk, Lola. I started just making mine with regular milk and some white vinegar when I was out one day and looked for a substitution. Your soda bread looks pretty and I bet was delicious with the apricot lekvar.

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