Now if you’ve ever been to Ireland, you quickly realise that we were invaded by a culture without much knowledge of baking.
It’s hard to find good bread. Most bread here bears only a passing resemblance to the great big fluffy loaves of other lands.
You can however find a curious brick like brown bread known as soda bread. It’s technically quite easy to make, but making it taste good requires some technique.
(I never personally reached Emily Bronte’s level of simultaneous bread baking and German poetry reading.)
One day I met a lady who was eating some soda bread with tea. I asked her how was the bread.
‘Not a patch on what my mother in law used to make.’
‘Do you miss her?’
‘Everyday. Everything you hear about mother and daughter in laws, we were the exact opposite. We were great friends and she used to sneak me her cheque from her old employer.’
Apparently her mother in law worked as a housekeeper for a fancy estate and her titled employer, the Duchess or some such like, used to sneak her s…
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