Irish Soda Bread and Rye Beer Bread with pic

Clay Q

Here is Diane's soda bread and my rye beer bread to help with holiday dinners this week. Diane likes the added zest she puts in the soda bread and I think the JD adds the right Irish flavor. If your interested in baking bread on the egg, Diane's recipe is easy to do. This is Leprichaun approved.........[p]Diane's Irish Soda Bread[p]4 cups stone ground flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons grated orange rind[p]4 tablespoons butter room temperature
1 cup currants soaking in JD whisky (drunken currants)[p]1/4 cup honey
1 1/2 cups buttermilk room temperature
1/4 cup JD whisky-from drunken currants above[p]This will make one large loaf or two small. Heat egg to 400 degrees and stabilize between 400 and 425 degrees, indirect, platesetter feet up, grid on feet. Oil a metal cake or pie pan to cook bread in.[p]Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, orange rind in a large bowl. Cut in butter with a pastry cutter. Stir in drunken currants saving 1/4 cup JD. (drink whatever is left)[p]Combine in a bowl, honey, buttermilk and the 1/4 cup JD and mix well. Stir this into the flour mixture gently then turn out the dough and knead for about a minute on a well floured board. The dough should be a little sticky. Shape into a round loaf and place in oiled pan. Cut a cross on the top. Brush a little milk on and let rest for 10 minutes.[p]Bake on grid in the egg about 50 minutes, turning loaf back to front at 25 minutes for even baking. When done,loaf should look golden brown and sound hollow when tapped with your finger. [p]Enjoy!
Clay Q [p]


This Rye Beer bread is perfect for sandwiches.

TRex

Clay Q,[p]That's some of the best lookin' bread I've seen come off the Egg yet. Great job.[p]TRex

QBabe

Clay Q,[p]Absolutely gorgeous! How about the recipe for the rye bread? [p]WOW!
Tonia
:~)

fishlessman

Clay Q,
good beer and good bread, thats all i want for dinner this st pats day. thanks for the recipe