Name: Soda Bread Baked in a Frying-Pan
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: milk, sour milk, or buttermilk, ½ pint.; salt ½ teaspoonful; bicarbonate of soda 1 teaspoonful, not too much or it will be bitter; cream of tartar 1 teaspoonful; Plain white flour 1 lb.; butter 2 oz.

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Good Things in England

By Florence White

Published 1932

About

Mrs. Fowler, Preston, Lancashire, says when she was a child in Shropshire her grandmother used to make soda bread and bake it in a frying-pan as follows:

Ingredients

Plain white flour 1 lb.
butter 2 oz.
bicarbonate of soda

Method

Rub the butter into the flour.
Sieve in the soda, cream of tartar and salt.
Make into a dough with the milk.
Rub a frying-pan over with a piece of mutton fat.
Make the dough into a flat loaf to fit the pan and cook it over the fire, cutting the bread into quarters and turning it until it is done.