On 3/11/2013 11:16 AM, sf wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 10:26:13 -0400, jmcquown >
> wrote:
>
>> Sounds good! My recipe doesn't call for currants (or raisins). It does
>> call for ground cardamom mixed into the dry ingedients.
>
> Cardamom is a wonderful addition! I used to make cardamom bread (a
> riff on pulla), which made fantastic toast.
>
I know I got the recipe from my mother. She probably got it from her
mother even though she was Scottish. It's the only way I've ever made
Irish soda bread. I seem to recall my paternal great-grandmother on was
married about five times and one of those times she married an Irishman.
Perhaps this came from grandpa's side of the family.

A good dense soda bread also makes wonderful toast.

Jill