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Paleolithic religion
|The Paleolithic
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Lower Paleolithic (c. 2.6 Ma–300 ka)
Middle Paleolithic (300–30 ka)
Upper Paleolithic (50–10 ka)
|↓ Mesolithic
↓ Stone Age
Paleolithic religion is the set of spiritual beliefs thought to have appeared during the Paleolithic time period. Religious behaviour is thought to have emerged by the Upper Paleolithic, before 30,000 years ago at the latest,[1] but behavioral patterns such as burial rites that one might characterize as religious - or as ancestral to religious behaviour - reach back into the Middle Paleolithic, as early as 300,000 years ago, coinciding with the first appearance of Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens. Religious behaviour may combine (for example) ritual, spirituality, mythology and magical thinking or animism - aspects that may have had separate histories of development during the Middle Paleolithic before combining into "religion proper" of behavioral modernity.
There are suggestions for the first appearance of religious or spiritual experience in the Lower Paleolithic (significantly earlier than 300,000 years ago, pre-Homo sapiens), but these remain controversial and have limited support.[2]
Middle Paleolithic[edit]
The Middle Paleolithic spans the period from 300,000 to 50,000 years ago. Some of the earliest significant evidence of religious practices dates from this period. Intentional burial, particularly with grave goods may be one of the earliest detectable forms of religious practice since, as Philip Lieberman suggests, it may signify a "concern for the dead that transcends daily life."[3]
Though disputed, evidence suggests that the Neanderthals were the first humans to intentionally bury the dead, doing so in shallow graves along with stone tools and animal bones.[4] Exemplary sites include Shanidar in Iraq, Kebara Cave in Israel and Krapina in Croatia. Some scholars, however argue that these bodies may have been disposed of for secular reasons.[5] Cut marks on Neanderthal bones from various sites such as Combe-Grenal and Abri Moula in France may imply that the Neanderthals may have practiced excarnation.
Likewise a number of archeologists propose that Middle Paleolithic societies - such as that of the Neanderthals - may also have practiced the earliest form of totemism or animal worship in addition to their (presumably religious) burial of the dead. Emil Bächler in particular suggests (based on archeological evidence from Middle Paleolithic caves) that a widespread Neanderthal bear-cult existed (Wunn, 2000, p. 434-435). Animal cults in the following Upper Paleolithic period - such as the bear cult - may have had their origins in these hypothetical Middle Paleolithic animal cults.[6] Animal worship during the Upper Paleolithic intertwined with hunting rites.[6] For instance archeological evidence from art and bear remains reveals that the bear cult apparently had involved a type of sacrificial bear ceremonialism in which a bear was shot with arrows and then was finished off by a shot in the lungs and ritualistically buried near a clay bear statue covered by a bear fur - with the skull and the body of the bear buried separately.[6]
The earliest undisputed human burial dates back 100,000 years. Human skeletal remains stained with red ochre were discovered in the Skhul cave at Qafzeh, Israel. A variety of grave goods were present at the site, including the mandible of a wild boar in the arms of one of the skeletons.[7]
The anatomically modern human (as opposed to the Neanderthals) inhabitants of the Near East during that time, may have invented this form of ritualized burial practice.[7] Middle stone age sites in Africa dating to around the same time-frame also show an increased use of red ochre, a pigment thought to have symbolic value.[8][9][10]
Upper Paleolithic[edit]
Religious behaviour is one of the hallmarks of behavioral modernity, generally assumed to have emerged around 50,000 years ago, marking the transition from the middle to the Upper Paleolithic. Evidence of burial with grave goods and the appearance of anthropomorphic images and cave paintings may suggest that humans in the Upper Paleolithic had begun to believe in supernatural beings.[11] The cave paintings of Chauvet have been dated to 32,000 and those at Lascaux to 17,000 years ago. At Lascaux the anthropomorphic paintings show depictions of strange beasts such as ones that are half-human and half-bird and half-human and half-lion. Consequently some[who?] have seen these as indications of shamanistic beliefs.[12]
The earliest known undisputed burial of a shaman[clarification needed] dates back to the early Upper Paleolithic era (c. 30,000 BC) in the area of the present-day Czech Republic.[13] However, it was probably more common during the early Upper Paleolithic for religious ceremonies to receive equal and full participation from all members of the band in contrast to the religious traditions of later periods when religious authorities and part-time ritual specialists such as shamans, priests and medicine men were relatively common and integral to religious life.[14] The earliest known Paleolithic shaman (c.30,000 BC) was female.[dubious ][13] Additionally it is also possible that Upper Paleolithic religions - like some contemporary and historical animistic and polytheistic religions - believed in the existence of a single creator deity in addition to other supernatural beings such as animistic spirits.[15]
Vincent W. Fallio writes that ancestor cults first emerged in complex Upper Paleolithic societies. Vincent W. Fallio argues that the elites of complex Upper Paleolithic societies (like the elites of many contemporary complex hunter-gatherers such as the Tlingit) may have used special rituals and ancestor worship to solidify control over their societies by convincing their subjects that they possess a link to the spirit world that gives them control over both the earthly realm and access to the spiritual realm.[16] Secret societies may have served a similar function in these complex quasi-theocratic societies by dividing the religious practices of these cultures into the separate spheres of popular religion and elite religion.[16]
Religion was often apotropaic; specifically, it involved sympathetic magic.[17] The Venus figurines - which occur abundantly in the Upper Paleolithic archeological record - provide an example of Paleolithic sympathetic magic: people may have used them for ensuring success in hunting and to bring about fertility of the land and women.[18] Scholars have sometimes explained the Upper Paleolithic Venus figurines as depictions of an earth goddess similar to Gaia or as representations of a goddess who is the ruler or mother of the animals.[6][19] James Harrod has described them as representative of female (and male) shamanistic spiritual transformation processes.[20]
- 300,000 years ago – first (disputed) evidence of intentional burial of the dead. Sites such as Atapuerca in Spain, which has bones of over 32 individuals in a pit within a cave.[21]
- 130,000 years ago – Earliest undisputed evidence for intentional burial. Neanderthals bury their dead at sites such as Krapina in Croatia.[21]
- 100,000 years ago – The oldest known ritual burial of modern humans at Qafzeh in Israel: a double burial of what is thought to be a mother and child. The bones have been stained with red ochre. By 100,000 years ago anatomically modern humans migrated to the middle east from Africa. However the fossil record of these humans ends after 100kya, leading scholars to believe that population either died out or returned to Africa.[22][23]
- 100,000 to 50,000 years ago – Increased use of red ochre at several Middle Stone Age sites. Red Ochre is thought to have played an important role in ritual.[24][25]
- 42,000 years ago – Ritual burial of a man at Lake Mungo in Australia. The body is sprinkled with copious amounts of red ochre - seen as evidence that the Australians had brought along with them religious rituals from Africa.[citation needed]
- 40,000 years ago – Upper Paleolithic begins in Europe. An abundance of fossil evidence includes elaborate burials of the dead, Venus figurines and cave art. Venus figurines are thought to represent fertility goddesses. The cave paintings at Chauvet and Lascaux are believed to represent religious thought.
- 30,000 years ago – Earliest known burial of a shaman.[13]
- 11,000 years ago – The Neolithic Revolution begins.
See also[edit]
- Anthropology of religion
- Behavioral modernity
- Evolutionary psychology of religion
- Grave field
- Mother Goddess
- Prehistoric religion
- ^ Andre Leroi-Gourhan and Annette Michelson, The Religion of the Caves: Magic or Metaphysics?, October 37, The MIT Press, pp. 6-17. "cave art born 30,000 years before our era ... would appear to have developed simultaneously with the first explicit manifestations of concern with the supernatural." (p. 6)
- ^ see e.g. Oldowan Art, Religion, Symbols, Mind by James Harrod and Vincent W. Fallio; About OriginsNet by James Harrod
- ^ Uniquely Human. 1991. ISBN 0-674-92183-6.
- ^ "The World's Largest Neanderthal Finding Site". Culturenet. Retrieved 7 August 2010.
- ^ Evolving in their graves: early burials hold clues to human origins - research of burial rituals of Neanderthals
- ^ a b c d Karl J. Narr. "Prehistoric religion". Britannica online encyclopedia 2008. Retrieved 2008-03-28.
- ^ a b Uniquely Human page 163Template:Verify credibiligy
- ^ The Religious Mind and the Evolution of Religion
- ^ An early case of color symbolism
- ^ Ritual, Emotion, and Sacred Symbols: The Evolution of Religion as an Adaptive Complex
- ^ The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science. Thames & Hudson. 1996. ISBN 0-500-05081-3.
- ^ Ryan (1999). "Poesy en Masse". The Strong Eye of Shamanism. ISBN 0-89281-709-7.
- ^ a b c Tedlock, Barbara. 2005. The Woman in the Shaman's Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine. New York: Bantam.[unreliable source?]
- ^ Stavrianos, pg 10
- ^ Lerro, Bruce (2000). From earth spirits to sky gods Socioecological Origins of Monotheism. Lanham MD: Lexington Press. p. 327. ISBN 0-7391-0098-X. pages 17–20
- ^ a b Vincent W. Fallio (2006). New Developments in Consciousness Research. New York, United States: Nova Publishers. ISBN 1600212476. Pages 98 to 109
- ^ Miller, Barbra; Bernard Wood; Andrew Balansky; Julio Mercader; Melissa Panger (2006). Boston Massachusetts: Allyn and Bacon. p. 768. ISBN 0-205-32024-4. Missing or empty
- ^ McClellan (2006). Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction. Baltimore, Maryland: JHU Press. ISBN 0801883601. Page 8-12
- ^ Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe, "Women in the Stone Age," in the essay "The Venus of Willendorf" (accessed March 13, 2008)
- ^ Upper Paleolithic Art, Religion, Symbols, Mind By James Harrod
- ^ a b When Burial Begins
- ^ Museum of Natural History article on human evolution
- ^ The beginning of religion at the beginning of the neolithic
- ^ C. Knight, . Power & I. Watts, 1995. The human symbolic revolution: A Darwinian account. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 5(1): 75-114.
- ^ C. Power, I. Watts and V. Sommer (2013). The seasonality thermostat: Female Reproductive Synchrony and Male Behaviour in Monkeys, Neanderthals, and Modern Humans. Palaeoanthropology 2013: 33-60. doi:10.4207/PA.2013.ART79
- D. Bruce Dickson, The Dawn of Belief: Religion in the Upper Paleolithic of Southwestern Europe (1990), ISBN 978-0-8165-1336-9.

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This week's Splenda-free topic: High School Athletic Directors (ADs) and their relationship to youth sports (pre-high school).
The subject was presented to me in an email from a reader in a town where they are in the process of interviewing candidates for the AD position.
The president of one of the town's youth leagues sent a message out to the parents of past and present players. Here are the highlights of that email:
"This afternoon, (the high school principal) sent out a message to parents within the high school asking for input on the things that they want to see in the new Athletic Director which is currently in the Job search stages. This is significant and all parents that can attend the meeting (date) at the high school should. Even if you don't presently have a child in high school it does and will effect (sic) your children. This position has significant effect on the youth programs. It is important that this hire has a strong business sense, enthusiastic spirit, independent thinker and willingness to push our athletic programs at all levels to produce competitive teams at the high school level."
Many parents in the community believe that there should be no connections between a high school athletic director and the youth programs in town. I honestly had never given the subject much thought until reading the email. So I began thinking about the positive and negative effects of such relationships.
Where should the line be drawn? The youth football league in my town is unique because we have players from several towns in the area. It's more of a regional setting and all of the players are redrafted each year and play against other teams in the league. One's hometown is not a factor in team placement.
I'm not sure that an AD from a school that hosts other town's players would have much interest in supporting a league set up in this manner. Many of the league's players end up as stars on high school teams in neighboring towns. To me it's what makes the league great and unique. It brings together people who normally would not be playing, coaching, or "working" together. Pre-high school youth leagues are mainly products of the individual towns and rarely cross borders.
But I'm drifting away from the subject just a bit. I know that high school coaches of almost every sport will hang around and watch some of the youth practices to look at players and show their support for the kids. I've always admired a coach for doing that.
My town's varsity basketball coach and his players held a clinic for youth program-aged kids and their coaches recently. He told the kids it was their way of giving back to the community. I love that. To me there is nothing that compares to watching older players mentoring the younger kids.
I also know that in many towns the high school coaches meet with the youth coaches to discuss what they would like to see in a player once he gets to the high school level. They may even suggest using some of the same plays or formations that are used by the high school teams. Again, I never gave it a second thought.
Maybe the fact that the high school has its eyes on a youth league puts a little more pressure on its coaches to win and ultimately use the better players to do so. Now we are falling back into the same trap that I've been suggesting we crawl out of.
I can see it becoming an issue if the youth program becomes a feeder to the high school and focuses more on the 7th- and 8th-graders headed to the next level while not paying as much attention to those that will end their careers in the sport after their last game as a youth player.
So we need to break this down a little. Is it just the AD who should not have opinions or (for lack of a better word) interests in the youth programs or should it trickle down to the coaches and high school players as well?
Ladies and gentlemen, I ask you for your feelings (nothing more than feelings …) on the subject. How much interaction and influence should a high school AD and his programs have on the town's youth sports programs and why? There are compelling arguments on both sides of the fence. I'd like to get off the top of it before I go into complete Splenda withdrawal.


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"People have been saying for years they wish we'd open a second location," said George Lawes, who co-owns the Decatur store at 2928 E. Ponce de Leon Ave. with his wife Kate.
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From OpenwaterpediaDavid Barra is the epitome of a passionate open water swimmer who specializes in marathon swimming. He is also an open water swimming race director and a guide and coach with SwimVacation.
In 2010, he had one of the most remarkably prolific years of marathon swimming in the 21st century. He started off the year with a 9.6-mile Maui Channel between the islands of Lanai and Maui in March in Hawaii. Then he completed the the 24-mile (38.6K) Tampa Bay Marathon Swim in Florida in April in 10 hours 49 minutes. And then he went on to complete the 28.5-mile (45.8K) Manhattan Island Marathon Swim in June in New York in 8 hours 30 minutes.
On his second leg of his Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming, he crossed the 21-mile (33.7 km) Catalina Channel in July with a 15 hour 37 minute swim in tough conditions. Then he did the 8-mile (12.8 km) Boston Light Swim in Massachusetts in August in 3 hours. He crossed the English Channel in September with a 14 hour 27 minute swim and completed the Ederle Swim in October in 5 hours 37 minutes. He capped off the 2010 season with a 5 km swim in Coney Island November in New York. His explanation of his exploits are below.
In 2011, he also conceived and completed the 8 Bridges Hudson River Swim, a 120-mile (193 km), 7-day, 7-stage swim in the Hudson River in New York, U.S.A. In 2012, he competed in S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge in Arizona, the 20-mile Provincetown to Plymouth swim (P2P Swim) in Massachusetts in August 2012, the 25-mile In Search of Memphre, a cross-border swim from Newport, Vermont (USA) to Magog, Quebec (Canada), and organized the 2nd 8 Bridges Hudson River Swim.
The Year 2010
45-year-old Barra trained hard during the cold winter months in New York's Mid Hudson Valley to prepare for his remarkable year. Besides the hours in the pool, he was also acclimated to sub-10°C (50°F) water by swimming in lakes throughout the winter. He completed the following swims throughout the year:
- 9.6-mile (15.4K) Maui Channel between the islands of Lanai and Maui on March 21st in 4 hours and 55 minutes.
- 24-mile (38.6K) second-place finish at the Tampa Bay Marathon Swim in Florida on April 17th in 10 hours and 49 minutes.
- 28.5 miles (45.8K) in the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim in New York on June 12th where he finished 15th in 8 hours and 30 minutes (the first leg of his Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming)
- 21-mile (33.7K) Catalina Channel in California on July 20th with a 15 hour and 37 minute swim in tough conditions - (second leg of his Triple Crown).
- 8-mile (12.8K) Boston Light Swim in Massachusetts on August 14th with a 7th-place finish in 3:00:31 in the 59°F (15°C) water.
- a 14 hour and 27 minute crossing of the English Channel on September 1st (completing the Triple Crown in the second shortest time period ever (81 days to Rendy Lynn Opdyke's 35-day record).
- 17.5-mile (28.1K) Ederle Swim from New York to New Jersey in 5 hours 37 minutes
- Coney Island 5-mile swim in November
Not since the heyday of International Marathon Swimming Hall of Famers Michael Read and Kevin Murphy has the marathon swimming world been graced by a working man and amateur swimmer so prolific and successful as Dave Barra (129.6 miles or 208K total in one season).
Humble, passionate and committed, Dave represents the good and the positive of the sport.
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Barra created an expedition swim called the 8 Bridges | Hudson River Swim. As Dave explains, "This swim [follow via Twitter] has been on my mind for a long time. Last year, I started training in the Hudson River with Rondi Davies and she encouraged me to finally put it together. She has also done an incredible amount of the leg work required for such an event. Originally, it was going to be just Rondi and me swimming, but after a few conversations with the Coast Guard, we decided that we could handle a few other swimmers for the up-river stages. We have a maximum of 7 swimmers total for each of the first 5 stages. This number was determined by the capacity of the boat that we will have transporting us to our splash site each day. CIBBOWS has also provided us with much needed support."
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Local Celebrity, Professional Fighter in Kickboxing, Boxing and 5th degree black belt, Author of 2 books and home workout dvd's and President of Rondeau's Kickboxing with 2 locations in Woonsocket and Johnston, RI. Christina has been teaching people for over 23 years. Christina was on the USA WAKO Kickboxing Team and travelled to Ireland, Italy and Poland competing and was a member of Chuck Norris's World Combat League, Team New England. She has been featured on the Maury Povich Show, Cosmopolitan magazine, RI Local cover and many other National Publications. Recently Christina created the "RI SMALLEST STATE but SAFEST KIDS" campaign and the "Fight Like a Girl Fundraiser" making realistic wishes come true for adults fighting cancer.
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I sympathize with Haverhill City Councilor John Michitson's predicament of having to serve as a city councilor while traveling for his job. I also applaud him for his success as a businessman. However, Haverhill desperately needs the presence of its leaders in the community and teleconferencing into City Council meetings does nothing towards that end.
Five years ago I stood with Peter Torkildsen on the steps of the Statehouse urging the Attorney General to investigate proxy voting gone rampant in the Legislature. Today, House Rule 49 and Senate Rule 57 both allow such a vote, but only when a member has a physical disability preventing him or her from attending session. The mere acts of being at formal meetings and voting are at the very core of what voters elect and pay their representatives to do — in fact, they are the only real obligations.
The Haverhill City Council, although venerable, may not be quite as prestigious as the Massachusetts Great and General Court, but the principles surrounding physical attendance are just as relevant. Although the law detailing telecommunications for official city and town meetings takes pains to provide for clear audio/visual and reception, elements necessary for good governance still cannot be transferred through whatever medium is being used (e.g. Skype). Councilors need to meet with constituents before and after meetings, confer with fellow members and be physically present in the community to adequately represent their city. This simply cannot be done when travelling extensively for work.
Once again, I applaud and respect John Michitson's desire to serve his city. Yet, as a staffer on Beacon Hill, I have an understanding of the need for presence among constituents to govern effectively. This philosophy is true, too, for our City Council. I ask that either the mayor reject the change or Mr. Michitson find the time to attend meetings.
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Until you have been so depressed you have had to be hospitalized against your will and against your desire, you have no idea what that experience is like.
Working as a professional with a dozen, a score, or a hundred, or even far more such people does not qualify you to impose your will, your values, or your religious philosophy on anyone. You might have more than a glimmer of understanding of such pain, but that does give you the right to decide how someone else must live just to make you happy. That is the attitude of a slave owner to people held in captivity.
There will be a few who say, thank you for saving me from my self, but not all will. Yet to be resolved is this question. Who put you in charge of deciding the fate of others when your permission was not needed, justified, or sought? Has your arrogance no end?
What seems to be ignored is the situation of having to live with a pronouncement of imminent death. Until you know you are about to die, you cannot comprehend the impact of that knowledge. It changes you in ways that are surprising and is damn near impossible to talk with others about.
There are so many who mindlessly blather about their rights but they ignore their responsibilities. One responsibility we have as civilized people is that we honor the right of others to decide for themselves how their life is conducted and lived. While I want my friends to have the best of life they can achieve, I am not qualified to define what that means for them. As a friend I can only hope they are satisfied with their choices.
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Irish Soda Bread
Just sharing my recipe, feel free to share yours !!! Mine is more like a loaf cake than a savory bread, which is just the way i like it ! I have no idea where the recipe ever came from, because i got it from my sister years ago. I make this every year and usually serve it with lemon curd along side.
It'll warm the cockles of your heart !!! :) Happy (nearly) St. Patrick's Day everyone !!
6 tablespoons butter
3 cups flour
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups currants
1 3/4 cups buttermilk
2 eggs, well beaten
1 tablespoon caraway seed.
-preheat oven to 350 degrees
-grease a square loaf pan with a tablespoon of the butter
-melt 2 tablespoons of the butter and set aside
-sift dry ingredients, add currants
-whisk milk, eggs and melted butter together
-add to dry ingredients, along with the caraway
-barely stir...turn into pan.
-dot the top of the batter with the remaining 3 tablespoons of butter
-bake for 45 minutes.
I love the way that puffed up - looks very cool. How well does it keep? I mean, if I made some today and wanted to bring it to work tomorrow, will it still be good, or is it best right out of the oven? Also, how do you serve it?
I have a recipe I got from The Oregonian newspaper last week I was thinking about trying. It's interesting to see the difference between yours and the other one.
re: ScarletB
Mine was made today to take to work tomorrow. I have it in an x-lg ziploc which keeps it very well. It'll probably even be better tomorrow. I just finished making the lemon curd, i used this recipe
People just cut in squares or slices, and either eat it plain, with butter, or with a dollop of lemon curd. I think you could also probably fancy it up a little by making little individual panettone sized cakes and plate it with a thinner curd or something. But i'm just bringing this into work to share.
I use my Grandma's recipe, which seems very similar to others I've seen. It's about done in the oven right now, and it'll go into work with me tomorrow:
Grandma's Irish Soda Bread
2-1/2 cups flour
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
3 Tbsp. sugar
1 Tbsp. butter
1 Tbsp. caraway seeds
1 egg -- slightly beaten
1 cup seedless raisins
1 cup buttermilk
Soak raisins in boiling water for a few minutes and drain well. Lightly pat dry with paper toweling. Sift first 5 ingredients together into a large mixing bowl. Cut butter into flour mixture with a pastry blender.
Add caraway seeds and raisins. Make a well in the center of mixture and stir in egg and buttermilk to make a stiff dough. Form into a large round loaf and bake on a greased and floured baking sheet, cut an "X" lightly into the top of the dough, and bake for 50 minutes at 350°F.
re: LindaWhit
re: ScarletB
Yes, it's definitely drier and more crumbly than what im nomad's recipe seems like it would be. It's the only way I know Irish soda bread. Just a bit of butter on it is the way I usually have it.
Today I made it in a 1.5 qt. round baking dish. The recipe calls for it to be formed on a baking sheet, but just didn't feel like doing that. So the shape is rather odd this time - a bit bowl-like because of the sloped sides of the bowl. I'm used it it looking like an inverted bowl only, but this is rounded on top and on the bottom. If I had made it in a straight-sided baking dish, perhaps it would look better.
Photos attached so you can see what I mean (hope this works - haven't done this before). Ah well, makes look funny but it should still tastes good!
re: LindaWhit
Okay, so one last question for you both. The recipe I pulled from The Oregonian http://www.oregonlive.com/foodday/ore...
makes 12 individual soda breads - she has you pull the dough apart and roll into balls. It seems like it'll make less this way than if I just stick the entire dough into a cake pan or souffle dish. I like the idea, though, but 12 isn't enough to bring to work. Maybe I could just make them smaller?
Any thoughts on this? My first crack at soda bread. Thanks!
re: ScarletB
Don't know how many you need to feed at work, but you could still make them in 12 even-sized portions and then cut each one in half for 24 servings.
But I think I'd still be inclined to use a 2-3 quart baking dish and make a single soda bread OR form into a single round loaf on the greased baking sheet. However....lower the oven temp to 350 and probably bake for at least 50-60 minutes.
re: LindaWhit
Thanks for all the advice. I just made two batches of the Oregonian recipe. I really can't say that they are "authentic" Irish Soda Bread, but they are darn delicious! I was going to make the first one as written, and the second as a loaf, but the first batch turned out so great I decided to stick with it.
I will have to call them Irish Soda Biscuits. Either way, my co-workers are gonna be very happy.
I'd like to experiment with both of the recipes posted above as I like the loaf idea a lot. Thanks!
re: ScarletB
Well, authentic Irish soda bread, the kind that's made in Ireland, is made with brown (i.e., whole wheat) flour, it's not sweet, doesn't have much fat, has no raisins or currants, and definitely isn't baked in a pan.
Not that there's anything the least bit wrong with the recipes posted in this thread - this kind of soda bread is delicious, if you ask me. Let's just say it's authentic Irish-American soda bread, just as corned beef and cabbage is Irish American. (If you think I have any issues with Irish-Americanness, look at my name! [g])
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re: LindaWhit
Irish-American soda bread is, shall we say, a whole different animal. The plain whole meal soda bread made in Ireland is meant to replace yeast bread, while the New World version is something moister and sweeter. Also, my understanding is that Irish brown flour is substantially different in texture than our whole wheat flour (presumably due to different strains of wheat, etc.), so I presume soda bread in Ireland has a different taste and texture than an American approximation of a traditional Irish recipe would - doesn't mean we'd like it or not, of course. I haven't had the privelege (nor do I know how common soda bread even is in Ireland these days!).
re: Caitlin McGrath
My recipe is admittedly more cake like, but I am not American. I am from Canada, but i consider myself a Newfoundlander first. So my recipe i guess , would be Irish-Newfoundland Soda Bread. Which is kind of splitting hairs, because i'm sure the Irish do not call their bread "irish" soda bread anyway.
I don't think that there is but ONE soda bread in Ireland (plus if you've never tasted it in that country, how would you know?)
To my knowledge soda bread is a bread that substitutes soda for yeast to make it rise. Therefore it could come in various forms, perhaps in various counties, chef to chef no?
According to wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_so...
whole meal soda bread is called "wheaten bread"
One of the nearby farmer's markets had a guy from ireland selling various treats, one of which was soda bread. His had currants, and was more bread-like.
I liken it a little to the figgy duff everyone makes back home. Some make it sweeter, some use white flour, some make it with molasses, some use a base of bread crumbs. Which is authentic? Pretty much all of them.
re: im_nomad
re: im_nomad
im_nomad, the last thing I desire is to create an international incident over soda bread, so forgive me for sounding US-centric in my post, as that was hardly my intent. Why don't I pull my foot out of my mouth and just call our common versions New World soda bread. As I said, I think they're delicious, and I'm sure yours is.
I was basing my conclusions about Irish soda breads (in Ireland) on what I've read and heard a several Irish cookbook authors say. I suppose the crucial point made was that it is indeed more bread-like, and less sweet and moist, as I said in post above.
re: Caitlin McGrath
The Boston Globe's Food section last Wednesday had an article on various foods eaten on St. Patrick's Day, as told by the former owner of Matt Murphy's Pub in Brookline and his American wife. They served corned beef and cabbage in the pub, but always went with more traditional Irish fare at home (lamb stew). And the recipe for soda bread that was included was more along the lines you're talking about, Caitlin. Here's the article:
And the recipe for Brown Soda Bread is here: http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/food/...
As you can see by the ingredients - nary a raisin, currant, or bit of sugar in their recipe.
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups whole-wheat flour
1 cup wheat bran
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
2 1/3 cups buttermilk
Extra all-purpose flour (for sprinkling)
It definitely seems more like what I've had made by my Mom in the past; I've just grown more accustomed to the slightly sweeter version - and I really like the raisins or currants.
And that's what makes the world go round and recipes change - different ingredients available in different parts of the world allow for changes to recipes and new customs. :-)
re: Caitlin McGrath
re: ScarletB
This looks excellent. I've always made it with raisins, but currants sound really nice.
Also, the "family recipe" that was given to me uses a mix of butter and Crisco. Anyone else have a recipe that is similar or can you suggest a substitute as I try to not use "food products" when I cook. - Thanks


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Hubba Hubba Revue went RED, WHITE & BLEW US AWAY with an evening of Burlesque, Comedy, Live Music and Sideshow Shenanigans, much more than you can shake a musket at! It's was a full night of SIZZLING HOT entertainment under the Rockets' Red Glare. All photos by Calibree Photography.


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Thursday, January 31, 2013, 7:00 pm
900 Alameda de Las Pulgas, San Mateo, CA | Get Directions »
San Mateo playwright Lauren Mayer's Never After is a rocking new family musical filled with our most beloved fairytale heroes taking on their villainous counterparts anew. Set to '80s rock, pop and Motown, the show opens with a hard-rock advisory: "This Ain't Your Typical Fairy Tale." Havoc, chase scenes, rock music, missing villains and a happily-ever-after ending ensue.
The show, by Pied Piper Players in its West Coast debut, runs at the new theater at Aragon High School in San Mateo, on Thursday, Jan. 31, Friday, Feb. 1 and Saturday, Feb. 2 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, Feb. 2 and Sunday, Feb. 3 at 1 p.m.
Fairy tale characters like Puss N' Boots, Pinocchio, Hansel and Gretel, Sleeping Beauty, Goldilocks all grace the stage in Never After. Bored of their new happy life post-fairy tale, the heroes of our favorite tales re-emerge to invite their villains to engage in yet another battle of good and evil.
Mayer said the characters in her work become like children to her and it's difficult to pick favorites.
"But I have to say that the Goldilocks character in this show is special to me," she says. "I like the way she really speaks to girls. Her lead song is 'Girl Power' and her message is waiting around for a Prince isn't much of a way to live your life! I like that message."
Tickets for Never After are $10 for children and $14 for adults
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