2 cup white flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
3/4 cup sugar
1 tbsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 3/4 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup currants
4 1/2 tbsp unsalted butter
2 eggs, beaten
1 tbsp caraway seed
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a #8 skillet(10 x 3-1/4), line
bottom with wax paper and butter paper. Mix the dry ingredients and
then add the raisins and currents and toss until they are coated with
the flour mixture. Mix the buttermilk and eggs and then add 4
tablespoons of butter that has been melted. Mix the wet and dry
ingredients only until just blended. Spoon into pan and dot with the
remaining butter. Bake about 1 hour or until a tester comes out
clean. Cut into wedges and serve warm.
Servings: 8 servings
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The History of Recipes
It is quite feasible to follow the history of transcribed cooking instructions way back into distant history, at least as far back into history as the ancient Egyptians, and possibly even further than that. However, generally, these old cookbooks were just primitive pictorial, hieroglyphic or cunieform recipes for meal preparation.
Interestingly, the oldest recipe in existence, according to experts is a collection of ancient tablets in the Sumerian language which recount the baking of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as having made anyone who drank it feel blissful. Moving on, there were some recipe books dating from the 14th Century - a recipe book entitled `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary named `Curye on Inglish`. Perhaps surprisingly, they have no connection with the indian food that appears on menues today, but instead recipes for the types of food on the menues of the upper classes of that period. During the next few hundred years, the upper-class families of the West competed with each other to offer the most exotic banquets, and as a consequence, cooks and their recipes became highly prized. Nevertheless, it was during the 1800s that haute cuisine and recipe publications rose to prominence. The Famous Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and Fannie Farmer in the US, dedicated their lives to collecting, verifying, and recording recipes of the day. By the time we get to the twentieth century, cookery publications were in great demand, mostly due to more people being able to read, people having more free time and disposable income. |
We hope you enjoy this Buttermilk Soda Bread recipe.
