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Radio 4,13 May 2022,14 mins

Soda bread with Briony May Williams

One Dish

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In a new series about the dishes that mean the most to us, Andi Oliver meets cookery writer, presenter and GBBO star Briony May Williams to sample her home-made soda bread. Briony makes soda bread just as her incredible Granky did, using a recipe that's now over 100 years old. Andi and Briony wonder how on earth anyone discovered that using ash from a fire makes a delicious risen loaf, get stuck into the science of acidulation and saccharomyces cerevisiae, and Andi has a bread-related brainwave which will transform the way you roast a chicken and will quite possibly change your life. Food Scientist: Kimberley Wilson Food Historian: Neil Buttery Producers: Victoria Lloyd and Lyndsay Fenner Series Producer: Lucy Dearlove Executive Producer: Hannah Marshall A Storyglass production for BBC Radio 4

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