Another win, a recipe with no name!! and 100 plus followers.

Over 100 followers of my blog, I am amazed and delighted....... I thought this could take some time to happen, if ever it did.  I had also planned another giveaway when or if it happened and have therefore been caught unawares, as all my little gifts are in France. On my return there at the end of next month, I will try to put this straight, so watch this space......

It was with great delight that earlier this week I received my Valentine’s giveaway from quaypocooks. This is the second gift that has so far arrived; one more to go!!   For those of you who said that I ought to get a lottery ticket, the way my luck was running - I did and I am still waiting for the call!!

Please take a look at quaypocooks blog; it has some amazing recipes on it, many with an oriental flavour. The gift was beautiful homemade jewellery -  a bracelet and two pairs of earrings. Only the other day, I was trying to find earrings with pink in them and guess what; not only were there pink earrings, but a beautiful pink bracelet as well in this package, not of course forgetting the blue earrings as an extra. Thank you so much for this delightful gift, it is really appreciated.

This morning, as I did not feel like going out in the rain to the shops for bread or rolls, I thought that I would make some soda bread for lunch to go with the pate and cheese. Having turned up many recipes, I realised that I did not have the correct ingredients for any of them, and as I had no yeast I could not make ordinary bread! I eventually made up this recipe as I went along. The end result was not quite what I expected; it was more cake  than bread, but it went very well with the cheese and the pate, so I thought that I would publish it here anyway.

No Name Soda Bread/Cake??
3 cups wholemeal flour
1 tablespoon of baking powder
1 slightly heaped teaspoon of baking soda
⅓ cup of white sugar
½ teaspoon salt
1 egg lightly beaten
2 cups crème fraiche
¼ cup melted butter.

Oven temperature (I have a fan oven) 160C (325F)

Mix the first 5 ingredients together, then mix the egg and the crème fraiche into this mixture. I did not mix it a lot. but made sure all the flour from the bottom was blended in. I then added the melted butter, mixed again and spooned it into a dish that I had sprayed with non-stick spray.

I baked it for 1 hour and then checked to make sure that the skewer came out clean; it did! I allowed it to cool slightly then turned it out on to a wire rack to cool. 

As I said previously, it was not quite what I expected, but sliced and buttered, it tasted pretty good and it was just fine for a snack lunch.


It would though be ideal for tea with some yummy home made jam :-)

Click to see enlarged pictures.

I see that Mary has put her recipe on today for Irish Soda Bread so for those who want to do the job properly take a look at her post at One Perfect Bite.