1.   Plenty of soda bread baked.

2.   Annual contests in Ireland seek out the best soda breads, and the variety of entries is remarkable for so simple a food.

3.   Baking this soda bread in a cast-iron skillet instead of on a baking sheet gives it its shape and ensures even cooking.

4.   All baked goods are made at the restaurant, starting with the sage scones, banana bread and Irish soda bread put on the table as you arrive.

5.   Alice Caswell of Parkville, Mo., has fond memories of the Irish soda bread that her aunt used to make.

6.   But after the oysters and the stout and a few slices of homemade soda bread, only the brave tackle the seafood chowder.

7.   For an entire summer they ate homemade rhubarb-date jam and imported Australian peanut butter slathered on Irish soda bread.

8.   Generally, traditional quick-leavened soda bread suffers from a dry texture, owing to the low gluten content in Irish flour.

9.   In a neighborhood not renowned for fragrances, you can smell the fresh-baked soda bread a block away.

10.   Irish soda bread and Mulligan stew.