Irish Soda Bread

[tenngun]

I do go in the woods just camping in funny clothing. As an hc activity in is on the fringe. Real frontiersman and anyone living at that time we're going some place or doing a particular activity like hunting or trapping. We know they could travel light when they needed to, but modern backpacking wasn't thier thing. However that said I often slip out in to the woods,walk till mid after noon set up a small camp, spend the night, breakfast smoke hit a loop trail that will bring me back to car. I'm not hunting but just looking, and doing a bit of child like pretending. My food is more to my liking then modern trail food, but in reality it's no better then back packer ultra light camp dives and stainless steel pots, but it's just not the same as my little fire and soup slurped up in horn spoon.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

The original non-yeast leavening agent was Sodium Carbonate aka Soda Ash, which was first produced in 1791. In 1843 the first Baking Powder was produced in England for the market, invented by a fellow who wanted to leaven bread but his wife was allergic to yeast. In 1846 the first factory to produce Sodium BiCarbonate aka Baking Soda was created.

Food grade soda ash can be used as a rudimentary baking agent but one does need to add an acid to the dough to cause the reaction for the leaven.


I was taught that an actual Bannock was oatmeal and water with a little salt, cooked in a skillet like a pancake, though flatter and denser if you omitted the baking powder. I've tried it and if you brown the outside and the interior is dried, then it's kinda tasty. Sorta a like a thick, oat, tortilla. Probably better when one is very hungry.

LD

 

[George]

I won't be doing any Irish soda bread on a trek, since I do 18th century and it's most likely mid-19th. I did bake one at home yesterday. though, in memory of a direct Irish ancestor of mine, Lt. James Felix McGuire, who was born near Dublin in 1734 and died August 19, 1782, at the battle of Blue Licks. As they say, you aren't really dead as long as someone remembers you.



Spence

 

[coloradoclyde]

Dang! Spence....
You really know how to rack up the style points.... :thumbsup:

How did it taste?

 

[George]

I've always thought Irish soda bread tastes like my Grandma's biscuits which she made from scratch and had on the table before daylight every morning.

Spence

 

[satx78247]

Spence10,

That looks DELICIOUS.

yours, satx

 

[nhmoose]

I won't be doing any Irish soda bread on a trek, since I do 18th century and it's most likely mid-19th. I did bake one at home yesterday. though, in memory of a direct Irish ancestor of mine, Lt. James Felix McGuire, who was born near Dublin in 1734 and died August 19, 1782, at the battle of Blue Licks. As they say, you aren't really dead as long as someone remembers you.



Spence

Well done and well said with honor Thanks for that post. :hatsoff:

 

[tenngun]

I do make a Boston brown bread that I carry on trekks at time also. Cornmeal and molasses and wheat flour in a boiled pudding bag.

 

[coloradoclyde]

I do make a Boston brown bread that I carry on trekks at time also. Cornmeal and molasses and wheat flour in a boiled pudding bag.

:hmm: .....More info please... :grin:

 

[tenngun]

A cup each of cornmeal wheat and rye flour, 1/2 teaspoon baking soda, tsp b powder,salt about a teaspoon or a bit more molasses or sorghum or honey,bout 3/4 cup, 1/4 cup mealted butter ,2 cups buttermilk or milk and sour cream,a cup of raisins.mix the dry,add the wet , and mix till you have a soupy batter. Add the raisins.
I learned to put it in a can and then put it in to boiling water about 1/2 the ht of the can, boil about 2 hours. Or the way I do it now in a pudding bag loosely tied and about 3 hours. You can carry it well for three or four days, you can eat it as is,or slice and fry or toast and serve in a soup.

 

[nhmoose]

B&M brown bread with or without raisins is close to this recipe. In NE it comes in a can in every store believe it or not.

To bad our NE cracker plant is now closed in VT.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

I was taught that adding raisins to ISB makes it a Tea Cake?

:idunno:

LD

 

[tenngun]

I don't know, it was the way I was taught to make it, oldest recipe I've seen for it was 1930s , though I bet it is a lot oldest since it's not far removed from hunters or plumb pudding.

 

[satx78247]

THANKS for the recipe. - I'll give that a try soon.

yours, satx

 

[tenngun]

Think you will like it.

 

[satx78247]

I'm 99.99% sure that I will. - THANKS again.

yours, satx