Food Monday ~ Daddy’s Bread
No! Daddy did not cook, bake or boil the kettle. He did eat and this bread was a favourite.
You might know it as:
White Soda Bread
Preheat oven to 180°C - 190°C
1 lb self raising flour (4 Mammy’s handfuls)
Pinch salt
Pinch sugar
1½ ozs butter or margarine
½ egg + buttermilk
Mix the flour, salt and sugar in a bowl and rub in the butter or margarine. Add the egg and buttermilk reserving a little for brushing the top. Knead lightly on a floured surface and transfer to tin or baking sheet. (Mammy always used sandwich tins for her bread to give a uniform shape.
Run a knife across the top of the dough at right angles to form a cross. Brush with egg and milk.
Bake for 45 minutes.
Once baked (test by tapping on the base of the loaf, it should sound hollow) mammy always wrapped the bread in a clean teatowel and set it on a cooling rack.
* I often cut into the bread while it was still warm, I was the only one to get away with it!
Warm Daddy’s bread fresh from the oven with home made raspberry jam…. heaven on a plate! 
** This bread is best on the day of baking and it is NOT a candidate for freezing. Perhaps this is why Mammy made one cake of white bread and two brown (wheaten) every day.
Rhyelysgranny said,
August 9, 2010 at 7:22 am
You are being very cruel. I haven’t had my breakfast yet. Now i am yearning for warm soda bread with a ton of butter and gallons of raspberry jam.:)
Grannymar said,
August 9, 2010 at 8:48 am
RG - You have the buttered slices and I’ll have the jammy ones!
Keith Gaughan said,
August 9, 2010 at 12:32 pm
I might give that a try!
Grannymar said,
August 9, 2010 at 4:18 pm
Keith - let me know how you get on!
wisewebwoman said,
August 9, 2010 at 5:32 pm
Mine freezes OK, GM - but then I don’t have the self-raising I have to add the baking powder and soda.
My daddy preferred the brown…
But this and a dollop of ANY jam is heaven….
XO
WWW
Grannymar said,
August 9, 2010 at 6:49 pm
WWW - I must try it with the plain flour bp and soda, one of these days.
steph said,
August 9, 2010 at 8:21 pm
I find it amazing that your father didn’t even boil the kettle.
Was that his choice or did your mother ban him from the kitchen?
Grannymar said,
August 9, 2010 at 9:01 pm
Steph - My father never set foot in the kitchen - his choice.