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Pictured Recipe: Whole-Wheat Irish Soda Bread

Oven-Fresh Bread Recipes

Together we divided the dough and shaped it in the loaf pans. After its second rise, just before we slipped the pans into the mouth of the cast-iron oven, we each pressed a thumbprint into a corner of the loaves.

“There now, we’ve left our sign,” she would say. When the hot fragrant bread came out of the oven, I carefully inspected the corners. There, in the lovely brown crust, I could see our faint marks. They were a trace, a small reminder of our presence, a sign that we had bequeathed a bit of ourselves to the bread and whoever might enjoy it.

—Sue Browning, a freelance writer based in Arlington, Virginia, has been published in The Almanac for Farmers & City Folk, Welcome Home Magazine and 515 Magazine.

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