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Name: Maggie Murphys Pot Oven Bread
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 1
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 Whole meal irish soda bread

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INGREDIENTS

1 Whole meal irish soda bread

Servings

INSTRUCTIONS

Down yonder in one of our big fields is a lovely mysterious ruin of an old house and grist mill--moss covered stone walls, roof fallen in over a perfectly arched stone doorway--and at one end of this relic is a tiny two-room cottage that was once the millers cottage. There, almost forescore years ago, Maggie Murphy first saw the light of day, and there she will live out all the days that are left her. Spry as a cricket, she bicycles the five miles into the village once a week and peddles back (uphill most of the way) with whole-wheat flour among her purchases. She cooks over an open hearth fire and mixes her soda bread just as in the recipe for Whole Meal Irish Soda Bread, but she has no oven--just a three-legged iron pot oven. She sets this right in the red-hot coals on her hearth, rubs it inside with a bit of fat pork, drops her cake of whole-wheat dough into it, puts on the cover and then shovels some of the red coals onto the cover. Heat top and bottom she has, and the bread bakes for an hour while she sits by the hearth, from time to time turning the handle on her wheel bellows--which makes a draft of air come up through the tiny hole under the coals, bring them to life with a golden glow. At just the right minute she brushes the hot coals off the cover, lowers the crane to catch the handle of the pot and swings it away from the fire. Out comes a perfectly baked, crusty loaf, fragrant and golden "and good enough for the likes of me," says my dear friend, Maggie Murphy. SOURCE: Pepperidge Farm Cookbook From the cookbook files of: Deidre-Anne Penrod, FGGT98B on *P, J.PENROD3 on GEnie File ftp://ftp.idiscover.co.uk/pub/food/mealmaster/recipes/mmdja006.zip

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Maggie Murphys Pot Oven Bread

1 Whole meal irish soda bread

Down yonder in one of our big fields is a lovely mysterious ruin of an  old house and grist mill--moss covered stone walls, roof fallen in over a  perfectly arched stone doorway--and at one end of this relic is a tiny  two-room cottage that was once the millers cottage. There, almost  forescore years ago, Maggie Murphy first saw the light of day, and there  she will live out all the days that are left her. Spry as a cricket, she  bicycles the five miles into the village once a week and peddles back  (uphill most of the way) with whole-wheat flour among her purchases. She  cooks over an open hearth fire and mixes her soda bread just as in the  recipe for Whole Meal Irish Soda Bread, but she has no oven--just a  three-legged iron pot oven. She sets this right in the red-hot coals on her  hearth, rubs it inside with a bit of fat pork, drops her cake of  whole-wheat dough into it, puts on the cover and then shovels some of the  red coals onto the cover. Heat top and bottom she has, and the bread bakes  for an hour while she sits by the hearth, from time to time turning the  handle on her wheel bellows--which makes a draft of air come up through the  tiny hole under the coals, bring them to life with a golden glow. At just  the right minute she brushes the hot coals off the cover, lowers the crane  to catch the handle of the pot and swings it away from the fire.       Out comes a perfectly baked, crusty loaf, fragrant and golden "and  good enough for the likes of me," says my dear friend, Maggie Murphy.  SOURCE: Pepperidge Farm Cookbook From the cookbook files of: Deidre-Anne  Penrod, FGGT98B on *P, J.PENROD3 on GEnie    File ftp://ftp.idiscover.co.uk/pub/food/mealmaster/recipes/mmdja006.zip

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Serving Size: 1 Serving (0g)
Recipe Makes: 1 Servings

Calories: 0
Calories from Fat: 0 (NaN%)

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	Total Fat 0g	0 %
	Saturated Fat 0g	0 %
	Monounsaturated Fat 0g
	Polyunsanturated Fat 0g
Cholesterol 0mg		0 %
Sodium 0mg		0 %
Potassium 0mg		0 %
Total Carbohydrate 0g		0 %
	Dietary Fiber 0g	0 %
	Sugars, other 0g
Protein 0g		0 %
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