Traditional Irish Soda Bread Baked Fresh In Holliston's Historic Village Of Mudville

HOLLISTON, MA — Among the historic villages of Holliston you’ll find Mudville, a neighborhood carved out in the 1800s by Irish immigrants. And within Mudville you’ll find Belfast-born baker David McGimpsey and his beloved Irish soda bread.

“I first saw my grandmother making soda bread in Donegal. That would have been in the early 60s. And I was fascinated by it,” McGimpsey said. “There was a lot of men in the house, and they worked the fields, and after the soda bread was put on the table it was devoured. It always amazed me how much bread these people ate.”

McGimpsey, who immigrated to Boston in 1988, has crafted fresh loaves of Montgomery’s Irish Soda and Brown Bread for the last 10 years at the Holliston Superette.

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