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Maggie murphy's pot oven bread
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Ingredients:
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| | Whole meal irish soda bread |
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Procedures:
| 1 | Down yonder in one of our big fields is a lovely mysterious ruin of an old house and grist mill--moss covered stone walls, roof fallen in over a perfectly arched stone doorway--and at one end of this relic is a tiny two-room cottage that was once the miller"s cottage. | | 2 | There, almost forescore years ago, maggie murphy first saw the light of day, and there she will live out all the days that are left her. | | 3 | Spry as a cricket, she bicycles the five miles into the village once a week and peddles back (uphill most of the way) with whole-wheat flour among her purchases. | | 4 | She cooks over an open hearth fire and mixes her soda bread just as in the recipe for whole meal irish soda bread, but she has no oven--just a three-legged iron pot oven. | | 5 | She sets this right in the red-hot coals on her hearth, rubs it inside with a bit of fat pork, drops her cake of whole-wheat dough into it, puts on the cover and then shovels some of the red coals onto the cover. | | 6 | Heat top and bottom she has, and the bread bakes for an hour while she sits by the hearth, from time to time turning the handle on her wheel bellows--which makes a draft of air come up through the tiny hole under the coals, bring them to life with a golden glow. | | 7 | At just the right minute she brushes the hot coals off the cover, lowers the crane to catch the handle of the pot and swings it away from the fire. | | 8 | Out comes a perfectly baked, crusty loaf, fragrant and golden "and good enough for the likes of me," says my dear friend, maggie murphy. |
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