4 1/4 cup all purpose flour
4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
3 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp caraway seeds
1 cup raisins
2 cup buttermilk
Directions
Directions:
Mix 4 cups of the flour with the remaining ingredients
with a fork until mixed. Sprinkle 1/4 cup of flour on
a board and turn out dough. Knead flour
in until it forms a smooth dough. (Add more flour as
needed). Grease a 9" round skillet or cake pan, dust
with flour, then press loaf into pan. Cut a 1/2 inch
deep cross in top of loaf. Bake 1 hour and 15 minutes
at 375 degrees, or until it sounds hollow. Remove
from pan to a wire rack; rub with butter and sprinkle
with sugar. Cool completely.
Servings: 1 servings
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Categories: Beverages; Bread; Breads; Irish
The History of Recipes
It is actually possible to track the history of recipes back into antiquity, in truth as far back into history as pharonic Egypt, and possibly even further than that. In practice though, in the main part, these early recipes were just very simple pictorial instructions for preparing meals.
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