My Irish grandma used to make legendary good Irish soda bread. She never used a written recipe. A few years ago we made her write out the recipe so the rest of us could bake it, but she wrote it out like "add some flour, a little baking soda, a little salt, add some buttermilk but not too much" etc etc. Needless to say, no one else in the family can recreate her bread and and none our loaves come out as good as hers. I love the idea of making the bread into a cake/muffin form, I never even thought of this. I'm used to a very dense, crubmly bread, which is excellent toasted with a little butter on top. I'll definitely try the muffins for St. Pat's day. Thanks for the idea!

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