{"id":6683,"date":"2012-10-15T01:21:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T01:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/?p=6683"},"modified":"2012-10-09T19:23:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T19:23:27","slug":"more-childhood-food-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/?p=6683","title":{"rendered":"More Childhood Food Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following on from this<\/a> post. One of my brothers sent me e-mail asking if I remember how to make soda bread, “like mum used to make”
\nPaul Rankin makes a fabulous one you can buy in the supermarket! is what I was thinking.<\/p>\n

We began to recall some more childhood food memories<\/p>\n

Fresh Bread in the morning.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mum used to make soda bread plain or with fruit. Both were equally delicious spread with her Irish butter.
\nBut how could something so beautiful come from something so frightening that sat on the kitchen windowsill for days on end prior to the making?<\/p>\n

The first day was fine: an open bottle of milk just sitting quietly in the sun.
\nThe next day the cream on the top of the milk looked decidedly thick.
\nThe following day the contents of the bottle had separated into three distinct parts: The milk at the bottom of the bottle, some watery yellow stuff in the middle of the bottle and then the cream beginning to emerge from the top of the bottle.
\nNow don\u2019t forget we were young and easily scared. And we didn\u2019t know that milk could grow! How could we?
\nThe contents of the bottle on the fourth day no longer resembled the contents of the bottle on the first day.
\n\u201cTomorrow we will have some bread,\u201d said mother brightly, inspecting the horror on the windowsill.
\nWhat we didn\u2019t know the first time we watched the bread making was, when mum added the contents of the bottle to the dry bread ingredients the smell of the now sour milk was enough to send a child running out of the kitchen!<\/p>\n

Thank goodness for my local supermarket, they sell very clean and healthy looking sour cream that stays put in the pot if and when I want to make a sourdough loaf.<\/p>\n

Bread Pudding<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now the whole street loved this, warm from the oven, soft and moist with huge plump raisins.
\nI can see it and smell it even now. Mum used to mix the ingredients in her washing up bowl and then poured it into a huge tray. She sprinkled sugar on the top of the mixture, which then caramelised in the oven to make a beautifully crunchy top. Oh my I could eat some now.
\nI have never made this and on the very few occasions I have been tempted to buy a square from the bakers I have been terribly disappointed. I expect if I had a nice recipe?<\/p>\n

Are there any out there?<\/p>\n

I don’t have a photo of soda bread or bread pudding but I did see a heart in my loaf yesterday.<\/p>\n

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