Happy St. Patrick's Day! I got my clover garland up from last year which I still love. When Desmond gets up from his nap, we'll make a leprechaun trap! I filled his head with leprechaun images on youtube before he went to sleep.... And I want to share the very best irish soda bread recipe with you. My mom's. Although I don't know where she got it and she didn't come up with it herself. But it's easy and so delicious. Please make some, you won't regret it! This recipe makes 2 round loaves. Here it is :
4 C flour
2 t salt
1 1/2 t baking soda
1/4 t baking powder
1/3 C sugar
1 3/4 C raisins
2 T caraway seeds
1 3/4 C sour cream
2 eggs
Sift dry ingredients in a big bowl and mix together. Add in raisins and seeds. In a separate bowl combine sour cream and eggs. Make a hole in the flour and stir in wet ingredients. Mix until moistened and a ball forms. Spilt into two round loaves. Place both on a floured baking sheet not touching. Slash cross on top with sharp knife. Bake at 350* for 45 minutes.
I usually substitute whole wheat flour in every recipe and honey or maple syrup for sugar but I haven't tried it with this. If you do, will you let me know how it turns out?
.....Made our bread, some rainbow sugar cookies cut into clovers for our traps and set our traps outside! Tomorrow Desmond will find a pair of leprechaun shoes filled with green jelly beans in exchange for the pretty fool's gold and cookies. You can't fool a leprechaun.
.....Made our bread, some rainbow sugar cookies cut into clovers for our traps and set our traps outside! Tomorrow Desmond will find a pair of leprechaun shoes filled with green jelly beans in exchange for the pretty fool's gold and cookies. You can't fool a leprechaun.
My Irish Soda Bread. The raisins that fall off are the best part.
YUM
My attempt at rainbow colored, clover shaped, sugar cookies.
Spray painted tuna cans, leprechaun blankets, cookies and fool's gold.
Desmond adds colorful umbrellas, because, leprechauns love rainbows.
The cookies, comfy beds and fools gold are in place.
When Irish eyes are smiling!
Leprechaun shoes and a note for Desmond.
That is all so adorable, I can hardly stand it. I never heard of this, did you make it up? This makes St. Patrick's Day so much better than green beer and corned beef and cabbage!
ReplyDeleteLast year when St. Patrick's day was rolling around, I googled, trying to find fun things to do and saw some leprechaun traps. I couldn't get my act together last year though. This year I was inspired by a friend who runs a day care and did it with her kids. She made it simple. So I used her can idea and her shoes and a note idea. Having Desmond has made me want to come up with fun traditions. I love traditions and holidays are a great tool for marking them. I didn't make corned beef and cabbage though even though I like it. I like the leprechaun, rainbow, pot of gold, luck, 4 leaf clover, wearing green part. Oh yeah, and the SODA BREAD!
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