Sunday, March 13, 2011

Irish Soda Bread



Irish Soda Bread

My mom makes corned beef and cabbage, but once a year, around the time of St. Patrick's day.  This year I offered to bring the Irish soda bread to accompany the feast.
I used the recipe from this blog:

I have done alot of baking, but have never really made bread before.
Soda bread does not use any yeast and is a very simple recipe!


Ingredients
2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt
1 tsp caraway seeds
2 tbsp sugar
4 tbsp butter
½ cup raisins
1 cup buttermilk

I had high hopes for this recipe since I spent $6.50 on caraway seeds...
It came out perfectly and everyone loved it!

Preheat Oven to 375
In a large bowl mix together flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, caraway seeds, and sugar.


Use two knives to mix butter into dry ingredients until it resembles coarse bread crumbs.
Add raisins.


Then add in buttermilk and combine.  Knead dough just a couple times to form dough.


Place dough on parchment lined baking sheet and pat into an 8" circle. 
Dust with flour and cut a cross in the top about 1/2" deep.


Bake at 370 for 35 minutes.
Place on a wire rack to cool.




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