4 c Flour

1 t Salt

1 t Baking soda

1 t Sugar (optional)

2 c Buttermilk

Mix dry ingredients. Add enough buttermilk to make a soft dough. Knead the dough lightly. Form a round loaf about as thick as your fist. Place it on a lightly-floured baking sheet and cut a cross in the top with a floured knife. Bake near the top of a preheated 450 degree oven for 30-45 minutes. The first recipe is adapted from one I found years ago in the newspaper. The second recipe is from "A Little Irish Cookbook" by John Murphy Chronicle Books, 1986 (ISBN: 0-87701-400-0) Anne Callery From: Anne Elizabeth Callery <callery@leland.Stanford.edu>