Brown Soda Bread with Currants and Caraway

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Brown soda bread offers nourishment, a rich flavor and is quite simple to prepare in any kitchen – emboldening the the repertoire of even the novice cook.  While the Irish are known for their traditional soda bread which combines little else but flour, buttermilk, salt and baking soda, many home cooks have adjusted the recipe [...]

Foodbuzz 24 24 24: Cookery Made Plain & Easy – An 18th Century Supper

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“I Believe I have attempted a branch of Cookery, which nobody has yet though worth their while to write upon … If I have not wrote in the high polite style, I hope I shall be forgiven ; for my intention is to instruct the lower sort, and therefore must treat them in their own [...]

Zaletti from In Late Winter We Ate Pears

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Zaletti are a mildly sweet Venetian cookie studded with rum-soaked currants.   Mildly sweet and perfectly crumbly, zaletti are a pleasant dolci reminiscent of shortbread.   I first stumbled across these charming Italian cookies while reading In Late Winter We Ate Pears by Deirdre Heekin and Caleb Barber – a charming memoir that follows two [...]