Hello and welcome to Savor, production of IHeart Radio. I'm Annie Reese.

And I'm Lauren Vogelbaum. And today we have an episode for you about Irish soda bread.

Yes. And I think I know the answer, but I will ask the question anyway. Any particular reason this was on your mind?

Yeah, you know, St. Patrick's Day is coming up. And for some reason, Americans have decided that's a really big deal and that we should use it as an excuse to celebrate various aspects of Irish culture, some of which we've kind of made up.

And but soda bread is a thing. And it's got an interesting history. We were just talking about it

in that caraway seed episode. And I was like, yeah, why not dig into that thing?

Yes. That was a heavy sigh because this was a tricky one. Oh, it went places. Oh, my goodness.

It went a lot of places. I've learned a lot.

I learned a lot about flour.

But I did, I told the story in the caraway seed episode.

I had made Irish soda bread with caraway seeds.

And I over, it was like an overpowering flavor and I thought something had

gone awry. Oh, that's like a pun. That's like a rye bread bread of every pound. Okay.

Let's continue. Yes. Well, and so, but then I was looking up, you know, is that even a thing

in Irish soda bread, traditional Irish soda bread?

And I got really mixed results.

And we're going to talk about that a bit in this history outline.

But I made it for St. Patrick's Day because I saw it every St. Patrick's Day.

It would be Irish soda bread, Irish soda bread. I was like, okay, let me try it.

I'm thinking I should give it another go. Yeah. And you don't have to put too many caraway seeds in it.

You can put no caraway seeds in it. I think the thing is, I've said this before, I hate doing dishes. So a lot of

times I do like the, I do like the like just eyeball it method, which usually works out.

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