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18 - 24 October 2001
Issue No.556
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Soda bread

By Moushira Abdel-Malek

Ingredients:

2 1/4 cups plain flour
1 packet baking powder
1/2tsp salt
1tsp bicarbonate of soda
2tbsp castor sugar
1 egg, lightly beaten
pinch of vanilla
3/4 cup milk
60gms butter

Method:

Sift flour, salt and soda into bowl. Rub in butter. Stir in sugar. Beat egg with vanilla and two tablespoons of the milk. Add egg mixture to dry ingredients with enough milk to make ingredients cling together. Reserve a little milk for glazing. Turn dough onto lightly floured surface. Knead until smooth. Place dough on lightly greased oven tray. Press dough into 20cm round. Cut a deep cross on top of dough. Brush with reserved milk. Bake in moderately hot preheated oven for about 40mn. Allow to cool. Remove and serve.

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