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Hot Cross Buns

March 29, 2013
Hot Cross Buns

You’re probably familiar with the old saying, “Good Friday comes this Month, the old woman runs, With one or two a Penny hot cross buns.”  And certainly most of us are familiar with the religious symbolism of hot cross buns.  But did you know that folklore contains a lot of superstitions surrounding the sweet Good Friday [...]

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Irish Soda Bread

March 15, 2013
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I’m running out of time to post all the recipes I’ve got on my list for St. Patrick’s Day, so I thought I’d better squeeze in this version of Irish soda bread.  Last year, I posted my go-to recipe for a traditional Irish bread.  Today’s post for Irish soda bread has a texture that is [...]

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Tom’s Irish Bread

March 14, 2012

What would St. Patrick’s Day week be without a loaf of Irish bread?  Studded with raisins and caraway seeds, this traditional loaf makes me look forward to breakfast with eager anticipation all week or for as long as it lasts.  If any of the kids are home, that’s only a day or two.  What that [...]

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Bread Sculpture Dough

January 5, 2012

My friend Jill and I have decided that we must have been twins separated at birth.  We are both certifiable recipe-aholics with no recipe too difficult to tackle and no ingredient too strange to track down.  If one of us needs an expensive, obscure ingredient, she’ll call me or I’ll call her and we’ll split [...]

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Swedish Limpa Rye Bread

December 25, 2011

Guest Post by Roger Both my mother and father were born in Sweden; my mother in Stockholm, and my father in the province of Dalarna, where the Swedish wooden horses with their distinctive red clay color are made.  The Dala horse is considered the unofficial symbol of Sweden by Swedish Americans.

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