From our Kitchen

to Yours

One of the strongest memories of my childhood is making Irish bread with my grandmother, in her kitchen in New Jersey. We mixed the ingredients together, forming dough into a large mound with our hands. She would always say, “Excuse my hands, I can't put my feet to it!” While the bread was still warm, we would eat it, slathered with butter and washed down with a cup of “billy goat tea” (mostly milk and a splash of tea) on TV tables, while watching All My Children.

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Ingredients

3 cups flour
3½ teaspoons baking powder
¾ cup sugar
¾ teaspoon salt
1 cup raisins
1½ cups milk plus more for brushing
1 egg
2 tablespoons melted shortening

Delia Callaghan’s Irish Bread

Directions:

Sift flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt into a bowl.
Add raisins and blend in.
Add milk and egg and mix well.
Add melted shortening and mix.
Grease and flour a 9-inch cake pan (I use my cast iron pan). If there is too much batter, use an extra smaller pan or cupcake pan for the extra.
Brush the surface with milk to brown.
Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.

Serves 8–10

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