The Best Irish Bread and Movies

3/10/2021

Hello Dallas, our team here at Metro-Flow has been working around the clock tackling jobs and serving the community since last months snowfall. We hope you and yours are keeping warm and are safe and sound.

First up, please feel free to check out one of our previous blogs here, where we address how to properly maintain your pipes in cold weather. We had a lot of burst pipes out there and we want to make sure everyone is up to date with what to do to avoid those situations. Also, in situations like the one we just went through, it is always a good idea to keep an eye out for boil water advisories even when the power has returned.

With that being said we wanted to welcome March and say Happy St. Patricks Day! This year we’re not just going to be wearing green, dying our beer, and celebrating casually. We’re going all out! We will be making delicious Irish Soda Bread and we have a great recipe for the whole family to enjoy, a movie or two, and some decoration tips.

Irish Soda Bread Recipe

Make yourself and the family some delicious Irish Soda Bread…

Ingredients

4 to 4 1/2 cups flour
1 tbsp of sugar
1 teaspoon of salt
1 teaspoon of baking soda
4 tbsp of butter
1 cup of currants or raisins
1 large egg, lightly beaten
1 3/4 cups of buttermilk

Directions

Preheat oven to 425°F.
Whisk together flour, sugar, salt, and baking soda. Whisk together 4 cups of flour, the sugar, salt, and baking soda into a large mixing bowl. Work the butter into the flour, add currants or raisins. Make a well in the center of the flour mixture and mix in buttermilk, beaten egg.
Lightly knead dough and form dough mound. Dust hands with a little flour, then gently knead dough in the bowl just long enough to form a rough ball. If the dough is too sticky to work with, add in a little more flour. Do not over-knead.
Transfer dough to a lightly floured surface and shape into a round loaf. Note that the dough will be a little sticky.
You want to work it just enough, so that the flour is just moistened and the dough just barely comes together. If you over-knead, the bread will end up tough.
Score with an X. Transfer dough to a large, lightly greased cast-iron skillet or a baking sheet (it will flatten out a bit in the pan or on the baking sheet). Using a serrated knife, score top of dough about an inch and a half deep in an "X" shape.
Bake. Transfer to oven and bake at 425°F until bread is golden and bottom sounds hollow when tapped, about 35-45 minutes. Let cool a few minutes. Remove pan or sheet from oven, let bread sit in the pan or on the sheet for 5-10 minutes, then remove to a rack to cool briefly.

Make sure to serve your Irish Soda Bread warm - and make sure to keep to keep flour, grease, fats, and oils away from your drains and garbage disposal to prevent a clog.

Movie Suggestions

There is something for the whole family...

Drama/Comedy
Sing Street (2016) Rated PG-13.
A light hearted coming of age story taking place in Dublin, Ireland for the whole family to enjoy.

Drama/Romance
Brooklyn (2015) Rated PG-13.
An Irish immigrant finds herself in 1950’s Brooklyn and struggles with the choice between her old and new home.

Horror
Leprechaun (1993) Rated R.
If horror is more your thing, Jennifer Aniston’s first movie follows a group of people who come between an evil Leprechaun and his precious gold.

Decorations

Go the extra mile and decorate! Here are some ideas we used to decorate our home and make things more festive:

Roll the green carpet with this Saint Patrick's Day welcome mat from West Elm.
Decorate an entrance with this great Saint Patrick's Day decoration kit from Party City.
Kick it up a notch with this eye-catching Saint Patrick's Day sports jacket from Shinesty.
Want more? Check out these Saint Patrick's Day suggestions by Amazon.

That’s all for today! We hope you have a fun, safe holiday with your loved ones. We will see you next time right here for more plumbing tips and fun things to do with the family. Thank you for sticking with Metro-Flow Plumbing!

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