This week: Irish brown bread, St. Patrick’s Day grub, cookbook giveaways and EYBD Previews

Please don’t send evil Leprechauns after me but I do not like typical Irish soda bread (online recipes) or corned beef (online recipes). I do however love brown bread (online recipes) and potatoes (especially Colcannon) – I am an Irish girl after all. I’ll give up all the other meal components for extra slices of sugary topped craggily brown bread.

My favorite recipe is one that has been passed around in the Hartin family for a while now and I’ll share it with you below (indexed). I make this loaf several times a year and every St. Patrick’s Day. This bread is not safe around me. The men folk at my table can have all the corned beef and side dishes, just leave me this bread and some orange marmalade butter and I’ll consider myself to be basking in the luck of the Irish.

Brown Bread

Preheat oven to 375 degrees

• 1 cup of all purpose flour
• ¼ cup of sugar
• 2 tsp. baking powder
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1 tsp. salt
• 2 cups of whole wheat flour
• ¼ cup of vegetable shortening
• 1 ¼ cup of buttermilk

Put the first six ingredients in a bowl and mix with a pastry fork. Cut the shortening into the dry ingredients with a pastry fork, pastry blender or large fork. Add the buttermilk and mix until it comes together – do not overmix.

Flour your bench or board – and take the mix out and knead it about ten times until it comes into a nice round 7 inch circle. Mark an X on the top with a knife. Bake for 40 minutes.

The best part: Meanwhile in a small sauce pan – mix 2 tablespoons of sugar with 1 tablespoon of water and heat until dissolved – at 40 minutes brush this mix over the top of the loaf and let bake for 5 additional minutes. Remove from oven and allow to cool on a wire rack for as long as you can before you must have a piece. Serve with orange butter (1 stick of softened butter mixed with two tablespoons – or more – of orange marmalade).

Other St. Patrick’s Day articles:

• The best St. Patrick’s Day eats
• Seeing green for St. Patrick’s Day
• The evolution of Irish soda bread
• Green, naturally

The last week on the blog

Since our last roundup, Darcie has written these articles:

• Mother’s Day recipe ideas
• Rare Andy Warhol cookbook headed to auction
• What does a ‘no-recipe cookbook’ look like?
• 2020 André Simon Food and Drink book awards
• The story of our pandemic kitchens, as told through cookbooks

Darcie’s weekly food news antipasto is shared every Sunday and the tag #foodnews brings up these information-packed posts from the most current to the first one.

Since our last roundup, I have posted:

• Jew-ish Cookbook Review/Giveaway with a Quick Bites with Jake Cohen
• How to Make Anything Gluten Free – Cookbook Giveaway
• Fruit Cake – Cookbook Giveaway & Quick Bites

Other posts:

• Spring 2021 Cookbook Highlights
• All Things Baking: 2021 Baking Titles; Online Baking Classes 
• Updated the 2021 cookbook preview post (so many cookbooks coming!)

And as always I continue to update our Kindle deals post so check the blog for new sales.

Jenny and the EYB Team

Recently Indexed Cookbooks

• The Hand and Flowers Cookbook by Tom Kerridge
• Jew-ish: A Cookbook: Reinvented Recipes from a Modern Mensch by Jake Cohen (see our promotion)
• Cook’s Illustrated Annual Edition 2020 by Cook’s Illustrated Magazine
• Cooking for Family and Friends: 100 Lean Recipes to Enjoy Together by Joe Wicks
• Baked to Perfection: Delicious Gluten-Free Recipes, with a Pinch of Science by Katarina Cermelj – promotion coming soon
• Leon: Fast Vegan by Rebecca Seal, Chantal Symons and John Vincent
• Black, White, and The Grey: The Story of an Unexpected Friendship and a Landmark Restaurant by John O. Morisano and Mashama Bailey
• Torta della Nonna: A Collection of the Best Homemade Italian Desserts by Emiko Davies – promotion coming soon
• Baked to Order: 60 Sweet and Savory Recipes with Variations for Every Craving by Ruth Tam – promotion coming soon
• My Shanghai: Recipes and Stories from a City on the Water by Betty Liu
• Food Between Friends by Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Julie Tanous

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Member Photo of the Week

Chocolate Guinness cake with Baileys Irish cream from Sweet by Yotam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh submitted by member Kinhawaii

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Featured Online Recipe

Corned beef and cabbage grilled cheese from Food Network Magazine, March 2021: The Pasta Issue

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EYBDigital Previews

Recently we uploaded our 941st EYBDigital Preview where a selection of full sample pages is available for the following cookbooks.

Learn more about EYBDigital Previews.

Note: To learn why you cannot add all EYBDigital Preview recipes to your Bookshelf, please read this Help page.

• A selection of pages and 4 recipes from The Arabesque Table: Contemporary Recipes from the Arab World by Reem Kassis – pub date 3/31/2021
• 3 recipes from The Healthy Swaps Cookbook: Easy Substitutions to Boost the Nutritional Value of Your Favorite Recipes by Danielle Davis – pub date 3/30/2021
• A selection of pages and 4 recipes from We Can All Eat That!: Raise Healthy, Adventurous Eaters and Help Prevent Food Allergies | 95 Wholefood Recipes for the Family that Eats Together by Pam Brook
• A selection of pages and 10 recipes from Today’s Special: 20 Leading Chefs Choose 100 Emerging Chefs by Phaidon Editors

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Cookbook Giveaways
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• Enter our US giveaway to win one copy of Ottolenghi Flavor by Yotam Ottolenghi, Ixta Belfrage, and Tara Wigley and a Smithey Oval Roaster which expires March 24th, 2021.
• Enter our US/UK/AU/NZ giveaway to win one of three copies of Christmas with Kim-Joy: A Festive Collection of Edible Cuteness by Kim-Joy which expires March 31st, 2021.

*Publishers thank us for our continued patience while awaiting the arrival of prizes as warehouses are not operating at full capacity yet and it appears things will only get slower as the winter season takes hold. The cookbook giveaway roundup shares all current giveaways.

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