Easter Bread

 

Bread has long played an important role in religious ceremonies and holidays. This is true in many cultures and cuisines. Holiday breads are often baked in symbolic shapes and include special ingredients. They can be made sweet or adding Anise. Some bake it like a bread or cookie and will either insert a raw egg in the dough which will cook in the oven or boil the egg first, color it and then insert it in the dough. Toppings can be added with slithered almonds or sprinkles. Here i made a sweet bread without anise with colored eggs and added sprinkles.

                                              

Irish Soda Bread

So, I decided to make Irish Soda Bread for St. Patricks Day. It was very hard to find a tradtional recipe because there is so many recipes to chose from. So, finally one of my husband's friends, who is Irish, passed me a recipe. It's not the traditional Irish Soda Bread, but, it was very, very good. What I found out is that traditional Irish Soda Bread does not have raisins. If your "soda bread " has rasins, it's not traditional soda bread. It's called "Spotted Dog" or " Railway Cake".  "Bread" a traditional Soda Bread is usually baked and leavened food made of a mixture of whose basic constituent is flour or meal.  "Cake" a sweet baked food made from a dough, or thick batter, usually containing flour and sugar and often shortening, eggs, and a raising agent (as baking powder). I have tried both . Both really good but i must say the "cake " was tasty. Especially toasted with a spread of butter.