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Soda Bread

Name: Soda Bread
Ingredients: 2 lbs. of flour; 1 teaspoonful of tartaric acid; 1 teaspoonful of salt; 1 teaspoonful of carbonate of soda; 2 breakfast-cupfuls of cold milk

A historic Victorian British dish of flour, tartaric acid, carbonate of soda and breakfast-cupfuls of cold milk. Adapted from Soda Bread, from The Book of Household Management (1861).

Adapted from Soda Bread, in The Book of Household Management (1861), preserved in the Open Recipe Archive's The Victorian British Kitchen collection and marked public domain. The method is condensed from the original and the quantities are restated in modern units; see the archive record at https://github.com/AdamBouhmad/open-recipe-archive/blob/main/collections/victorian-britain/recipes/soda-bread-2.md.

The dish

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Soda Bread

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Dairy & Eggs

2breakfast-cupfuls of cold milkChecked by You

Pantry / Durable

2 lbflour
1 tsptartaric acidChecked by You
1 tspcarbonate of soda

Spices & Seasoning

1 tspsalt

Cooking Instructions

Let the tartaric acid and salt be reduced to the finest possible powder; then mix them well with the flour
Dissolve the soda in the milk, and pour it several times from one basin to another, before adding it to the flour
Work the whole quickly into a light dough, divide it into 2 loaves, and put them into a well-heated oven immediately, and bake for an hour
Sour milk or buttermilk may be used, but then a little less acid will be needed

Adapted from Open Recipe Archive · The Book of Household Management (1861; archive record marked public domain). View a published recipe at Project Gutenberg (opens in a new tab)