Aunt Mary's Irish Bread Aunt Mary's Irish Bread Ingredients    4       c            Flour*    1       c            Sugar    1       t            Salt    2       ts           Heaping baking powder    1       t            Carraway seeds    1                    Egg                         Buttermilk    2       tb           Butter**    1 1/2   c            Raisins -- 2 fists      1/2   c            Currants    1       c            Mixed fruit -- (1/2 lb)      1/4   ts           Baking soda     Procedure   If you can't trust a Mary Catherine Gallagher for           Irish Soda Bread, who can you trust. This is an old         family recipe from a guy's wife's Aunt.                                                                                       *(Fill the sifter are her words) **(a good chunk--her      words) Preheat oven to 400*F Soak raisins and currants      in hot water. Put sugar in a mixing bowl and cut            butter into it. Cut until it looks like white               cornmeal. Put in the caraway seeds Put flour, salt,         baking powder and baking soda into the sifter and sift      into the sugar and butter mix.                               If you use the mixed fruit, cut any large pieces and       mix into the flour mixture. Drain the raisins and           currants and dry well.                                       Mix into the dry ingredients. In a cup measurer, beat      the egg with a fork and fill the cup with buttermilk.       Mix lightly.                                                 Make a hole in dry ingredients and pour in milk and        egg. Mix well until everything is wet and starts to         pull away from the sides of the bowl. Add more liquid       if needed.                                                   Knead slightly to form into a round loaf.                   Place loaf in a HOT iron frying pan which has been         greased and floured. Cut a large cross nearly through       the loaf. Bake at 400*F for 10 minutes and lower            temperature to 250*F for another 60 minutes.                 Remove from oven and while still hot brush with a          mixture of 5 TBS sugar and 1/4 cup evaporated milk          (mixed well). Turn out onto a rack when cool.                Serving Information Serves: 16 Fat: g Calories: Angel_Juli         This webset page was assembled on Sunday June 15, 2008 by BuzyS. with graphics from Hemera using one of the many auto-scripters available at  Chat_Central_Gateway  All rights reserved KENDOC 2005