Instructions: Preheat oven to 425 F !

Mix all the ingredients together by hand with a fork as you would for biscuits, i.e. gently and quickly until a dough ball forms, leaving the sides of the bowl. Place dough on a greased baking sheet. Use a piece of plastic wrap to cover the dough so you can easily shape it into a round loaf with your hands.( its a sticky dough thats why ) Remove plastic, use a sharp knife and cut, slash an "X" across the top of the dough. Dust top of loaf with flour.( for looks only ) Now use a large metal bowl and completely cover the loaf with it! Bake in the preheated 425F oven for 30 minutes. Remove bowl ,( careful, steam will escape,) and return bread to the oven and bake another 30 minutes at 425 or until golden. You should have a crusty loaf with a lovely moist interior.

Note: my bread finished baking in 15 minutes after the bowl was removed not 30 and was a good golden brown. This truly tastes best when served warm.

NOTES :
I just saw this recipe on t.v. the other day and was intrigued by it.I made the bread and it is good when fresh from the oven with butter and jam.

Toast it the following day. Its bare bones, no fat since I used skim milk.

Although a quick bread, it had the texture and quality of almost a yeast bread.

However the method of covering the loaf indeed did produce one of the crustiest loaves I made. I am contemplating experimenting using this idea with yeast based recipes.

Here it is for all those curious bread bakers who want to try something new!

BTW, the demonstrated bread used regular milk and baking powder so thats what I tried the first time for my loaf.

This is not a sweet bread and there is no sugar in the recipe if you were wondering. And it tastes nothing like Irish soda bread!

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