farls

• I found an interesting site that gives history and recipes for Irish brown bread, soda breads and farls. —  The Fresh Loaf
• The characteristic marking, cut into the dough before baking, allows ample room for the loaf to expand in the oven and provides four pre-portioned sections, also known as "farls."
• The word "farls" is derived from the Gaelic word "fardel," meaning a quarter or fourth part.
• There was plenty for two on the table, he said to himself: a loaf and a bap and some soda-farls and a potato cake and the half of a barn-brack and butter and raspberry jam. —  The Foolish Lovers
• Moist pith of farls of bread, the froggreen wormwood, her matin incense, court the air. —  Ulysses

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