Irish White Soda Bread

Four ingredients, buttermilk, thirty minutes. The quickest way to make tasty bread. From Eileen O'Driscoll's Soups, 2002.

Soda bread came with every bowl of soup that trip, dense enough that halfway through the first slice I understood why we were walking twelve miles a day. My sister, the one who held her ground against the salad bar and got her spinach salad anyway, wasn’t a fan even then. These days it wouldn’t matter. She’s gluten-free now. Some things work themselves …