Irish American Heritage Museum are looking for the best Irish soda bread

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The Irish American Heritage Museum in Albany are hosting quite an interesting competition this March. 

Inspired by the museum's mission to 'preserve and tell the story of the Irish people and their culture in America', they've decided to host an Irish Soda Bread Amateur Competition celebrating the age-old traditional Irish recipe.

So what are the rules of the competition?

There are three categories: traditional white flour soda bread; traditional wheaten (brown) flour soda bread, and; family, not strictly traditional ( FNST) Irish Soda Bread. But competitors can submit a bread in more than one category if they want to.

Two soda breads from exactly the same recipe must be entered for any category in which an entry is submitted: one for display and one for the judges to examine and to eat.