Are you ready?

Saint Patrick's day is coming. Are you ready?

Here's our fun menu for the day:

Breakfast

Bangers
Irish Soda Bread, toasted
McCann's Steel Cut Irish Oatmeal

Lunch "Pub Grub"

Grilled Cheese sandwiches made with Irish Soda Bread and imported aged Dubliner Cheese.

Dinner

Corned Beef and Cabbage
Colcannon ( mashed Potato/Cabbage/Bacon and scallions with a "knob of butter")
Irish Soda Bread
Ice Cold Guiness
Fruit Scones for dessert

If you want to make Irish Soda Bread you need to get busy and do it today! It needs a day to "age" to perfection.

Here's the recipe:

3 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/3 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 egg, lightly beaten
2 cups buttermilk
1/4 cup butter, melted

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

Grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan.

Combine flour, baking powder, sugar, salt and baking soda. (Sift together several times to be sure soda is distributed throughout) Blend egg and buttermilk together, and add all at once to the flour mixture. Mix just until moistened. Stir in butter. Pour into prepared pan.

Bake for 65 to 70 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the bread comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack. Wrap in foil for several hours, or overnight, for best flavor.