Thursday, March 13, 2008  St. Patrick's Reminder  Since Monday
is St. Patrick's Day I thought it would be nice to remind you of
this post from last year for Irish Soda Bread. There are a lot
of imitations out there so remember the rules. If it has butter,
eggs or sugar in it is not Irish Soda Bread it is some kind of
cake by definition, most likely some variation of the Irish
Spotted Cake.  One more note: Corned Beef and Cabbage is not an
Irish dish. Beef was never a big part of the Irish diet and you
would more likely find some boiled pork with vegetables and
sometimes even cabbage. A true Irish dish would be Colcannon
which is mashed potatoes and cooked cabbage. There is a link to
a recipe for that as well at the above link. Yes, the Irish had
cows but they were for milk and not beef. Yes, the Irish did
export tons of salted beef even during the Great Famine but that
was by the tenant farmers for their English masters. Beef was
too expensive. Trivia: Salted beef took on the name Corned Beef
from the corn co