Snow, Spring and Soda Bread...

Hmm...my last post really was a while ago! 

Hopefully you lovely girls are all happy and have been busy doing what you love best. :)

 Outside my window some unexpected snow is falling and again everything is covered in white.  The temps should rise into the 50's by this afternoon so this little bit of winter will again melt away into spring.  

The backyard birdies are happily singing away as if not at all bothered by this surprise snow.  They know there probably won't be many more snowflakes landing on their little heads after today. ;)

We've been on an Irish soda bread kick since St. Patrick's Day.  Yesterday I baked up another loaf.  It's so good warm from the oven and slathered with butter.  It's also just as delicious a day or two later, sliced thick and lightly toasted...of course we glob on the butter then too!

I have two recipes for soda bread and both are good, but I've been using my mom's recipe lately.   I'll include it below if you'd like to give it a go.

In between my never ending munching on soda bread, I finished up a few springtime pins.  ;) 

Flowers, leaves and vines in pretty spring colors with a few itty-bitty bees buzzing around.  I had such fun creating these!

   I know I've missed so much of what you've been up to this past month.  Hopefully I'll be able to catch up with all my visiting this week.

Have a lovely day sweeties.  See you soon!

(Elizabeth of Another Vegetarian, :) If you're reading this can you email me?) 

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Irish Soda Bread

4 cups of flour

1/2 cup of sugar

1 teaspoon of baking soda

1/2 teaspoon of salt

1 cup of golden raisins

3 tablespoons of caraway seeds (optional)

2 teaspoons of cream of tartar

4 tablespoons of just melted butter

2 cups of buttermilk

2 eggs

Preheat your oven to 300°

In a large bowl mix your dry ingredients together.

In a separate bowl stir together the butter, buttermilk and eggs.

Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and mix together.  The dough will be stiff.

Divide evenly into two regular sized loaf pans and bake in the center of the oven for one hour.

* You can also make one large round loaf like I did in the photo.  I used a 10" stoneware pie plate.  Just check to make sure it's cooked through after about an hour.

Enjoy!

xo Paulette