Laurel and I spent yesterday baking for the bake sale at a local irish club dinner show. She baked 6 dozen M&M cookies (did you know mini M&M's are cheaper in the baking aisle than they are in the candy aisle) and I did the soda bread.
I don't care for it - it's pretty dense and not much flavor. Hubby, however, thinks it's pretty good. It's easy, for sure, and goes well with a hot bowl of stew.
A lot of recipes online have raisins in the recipe. It's my understanding that the traditional bread is very basic and doesn't use fruits or seeds. Ireland doesn't have many vinyards....
Irish Soda Bread
425 degree oven.
Grease and flour a covered pan. I have a covered cast iron dutch oven that works well.
4 c. flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 3/4 c buttermilk
Sift dry ingredients together. Add milk and stir into sticky dough. Turn out onto lightly floured surface, knead lightly. Form into a ball, flatten slightly, cut an "X" into the top.
Bake, covered, 30 minutes.
Uncover, bake an additional 15 minutes.
Bread will sound hollow when tapped on the bottom.
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11 years ago
2 comments:
I made Irish soda bread once myself and didn't like it either. It didn't look nearly as good as yours does though. But I have to agree...not much flavor!
I guess you're supposed to eat it with soup or stew. It looks good anyway.
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