Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street RadioButterfly Buns, Barmbrack and Soda Bread: The Secrets of Irish Baking

Letting Fairies Out Of Bread

26:48–27:11 · 24s

Cherie Denham shares the Irish superstition behind scoring soda bread—cross to keep the devil out, pierce quarters to let the fairies escape.

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