Le 17 mars, l’Irlande fête la Saint-Patrick, le saint patron de l’île. L’occasion idéale pour concocter, avec la recette en anglais du magazine I Love English, une spécialité locale : l’Irish* soda bread, un délicieux pain aux raisins.
Ingredients
• 450g white flour*
• 1 level* teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• 1 level teaspoon salt*
• 2 teaspoons* sugar
• 75g raisins*
• 1 egg
• 350ml buttermilk*
Method*
1• Preheat* the oven to 220°C. Dust* a baking* tray with flour.
2• In a bowl, mix the flour with the bicarbonate of soda, salt, sugar and raisins. Use your fingers to lift* up the mix and “air*” it.
3• In a jug*, mix the egg and the buttermilk.
4• Make a well* in the centre of the flour mixture. Pour the milk and egg mix* into the flour.
5• Using one hand, lightly* mix all the ingredients together. When the dough* is soft* but not too wet, put it on a floured work surface.
6• Wash* and dry* your hands. Roll* the dough into a ball and then flatten* it to 5cm thick. Put it on the baking tray. Using a knife, make a deep* cross on top.
7• Put the baking tray in the oven* and reduce* the heat to 200°C. Bake* for 35 minutes.
****** Vocabulaire anglais ******
air: aérer
bake: cuire au four
baking tray: plaque de cuisson
bowl: saladier
buttermilk: lait fermenté
deep cross: croix profonde
dough: pâte
dry: sécher
dust: saupoudrer
flatten: aplatir, dérouler
flour: farine
floured work surface: plan de travail fariné
Irish: irlandais
jug: carafe
knife: couteau
level teaspoon: cuillerée à café rase
lift up the mix: soulever la préparation
lightly mix: incorporer doucement
method: préparation
mix (n): préparation
mix (v): mélanger
mixture: appareil, préparation
oven: four
pour: verser
preheat the oven: préchauffer le four
raisin: raisin sec
reduce the heat: baisser le four
roll into a ball: former une boule
salt: sel
soft: souple
teaspoon: petite cuillère
thick: d’épaisseur
wash: laver
well: puits
wet: humide
“Irish soda bread”, I Love English n°326, mars 2024. Photo : fahrwasser/AdobeStock.
