BY LISA MCCOLE

E S . P ’ D , my mom, Alice Caswell, would make Irish soda bread from her Aunt Eily Grimes’s recipe. When Mom was a child, Eily would come over to visit and bring this bread. Years later, Mom asked for the recipe. Eily, a large woman, said it was four handfuls of our, a pinch of this, and a scoop of that. Mom wrote this down and went home to make it. It was a op.

My Aunt Honey (Margaret Herrmann) then invited Eily over and had all the ingredients ready. Eily walked into Aunt Honey’s kitchen,

tore the tablecloth o the table, and dumped our in a heap on the table. No bowl needed for this recipe. As Eily started to use an ingredient, Honey took it and measured it before giving it back to Eily. is is how we can now enjoy this family recipe today. It is great bread any time of the year, especially when warm and covered with butter.