Name: White Soda Bread with Herbs
Ingredients: 3 c Unbleached all-purpose flour; 1 ts Salt; 1 ts Baking soda; 1 1/2 c Sour milk; or buttermilk to mix; 2 tb Freshly chopped herbs; (such as rosemary, sage, thyme, chives, parsley and lemon balm)

Ultimately we become like what we worship. If we worship money, we become materialistic. If we worship power and prestige we become cold and calloused. If we worship an idol, we become as spiritually dead and lifeless as a stone. On the other hand, if we worship Christ, we will be conformed to His image... If He is our ever-increasing preoccupation then we are imperceptibly being transformed into His image by the Holy Spirit.

John MacArthur

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy	Irish		1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

3	c	Unbleached all-purpose flour
1	ts	Salt
1	ts	Baking soda
1 1/2	c	Sour milk; or buttermilk to mix
2	tb	Freshly chopped herbs; (such as rosemary, sage, thyme, chives, parsley and lemon balm)

INSTRUCTIONS

Soda bread only takes 2 to 3 minutes to make and 20 to 30 minutes to bake.
It is certainly another of my great .convertibles.. We have had the
greatest fun experimenting with different variations and uses. This kind of
bread is also great with olives, sun-dried tomatoes or caramelized onions
added, so the possibilities are endless for the hitherto humble soda bread.
Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F.
Sift the dry ingredients into a bowl and make a well in the center. Pour in
most of the milk at once. Using one hand, mix in the flour from the sides
of the bowl, adding more milk if necessary. The dough should be softish,
not too wet and sticky. When it all comes together, turn it out onto a
floured board and knead lightly for a second, just enough to tidy it up.
Pat the dough into a round about 1 inch thick and cut a cross on it to let
the fairies out! Let the cuts go over the sides of the bread to make sure
of this. Bake in the preheated oven for 20 minutes, then turn the
temperature down to 400 degrees F and continue baking for 15 minutes or
until cooked. If you are in doubt, tap the base of the bread; if it is
cooked, it will sound hollow.
For White Soda Bread with Herbs: Add the freshly chopped herbs to the dry
ingredients. Shape into a loaf or scones and bake.
Yield: 1 big loaf
MC formatted & Busted by Barb at Possum Kingdom on 3/17/98
NOTES : Airdate: 3/17/98: St. Patrick's Day Specialties, classic Irish
dishes
Recipe by: Darina Allen's Ballymaloe Seasons
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest by "abprice@wf.net" <abprice@wf.net> on Mar 17,
1998

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“Love – a gift from God”

“Concern” means to “have an interest in, give attention to, be engaged by a situation, as a matter of consideration or responsibility.” “Worry” is a disquieted uneasiness of mind, an anxious apprehension concerning an impending or anticipated situation; fretting about a foreboding misfortune or failure (“worried” and “anxious” are used as synonyms)… “Concern” becomes “worry” when we fail to relate the situation that confronts us to the source of sufficiency in God.

James Fowler

It is not persecution alone that we ought to fear, not those forces that in open warfare range abroad to overthrow and defeat the servants of God. It is easy enough to be on one’s guard when the danger is obvious; one can stir up one’s courage for the fight when the Enemy shows himself in his true colors. There is more need to fear and beware of the Enemy when he creeps up secretly, when he beguiles us by a show of peace and steals forward by those hidden approaches which have earned him the name of the 'Serpent.'… Those whom he has failed to keep in the blindness of their old [pagan] ways he beguiles, and leads them up a new road of illusion. He snatches away people from within the Church herself, and while they think that coming close to the light they have now done with the night of the world, he plunges them unexpectedly into darkness of another kind. They still call themselves Christians after abandoning the Gospel of Christ and the observance of His [moral] law; though walking in darkness they think they still enjoy the light.

Cyprian