Irish Bread (“Little Allan” Version)

INGREDIENTS:

• 5 cups flour
• 5 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp soda
• 1/8 tsp salt
• One pint buttermilk
• 1 egg
• 1 cup sugar
• Fist-full of crisco (about 1/4 cup)
• 1 stick margarine (or butter)

DIRECTIONS:

Put all ingredients in mixer, mix, and “dump” into 2 loaf pans (or 1 larger baking pan), and cook about 50 minutes at 350 degrees.

Tastes good with just butter on it, warm or cold!   This recipe came from Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada!

Memory:  I can’t help but remember good times growing up when I smell Irish bread baking in the oven.  Fiddle music, and Dad step dancing, “tuning” with my sons on his knee when they were little.