Of course if we were at school today we would be celebration our very own school patron saint. We can still do this, in a food way!!

Today we will make some traditionally Irish Soda Bread. This bread is steeped in our history and tradition. It dates back 100’s of years, when yeast was very expensive and unavailable in this country.

Here is the famous chef, Darina Allen making her soda bread click on this link to view.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP38s55anpM

Ok lets get started, with making this very simple delicious bread. As always check you have all the ingredients you need before you start.

You can make this a sweet bread or a savoury bread. Your choice, Maybe check with the family to see what the majority vote on it is.!!!

follow this link which shows you how to knead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5NwwX7y6Ao

with a sharp knife cut a cross on the top of the dough legend has it ,this is to let the fairies !!!

bake in a pre heated oven @200 degrees for approx 40 mins,

this is a good way to check if your bread is cooked right through ,put a knife into the bread ,if it comes clean, your bread id cooked