Traditional Irish Soda Bread
Traditional Irish Soda Bread

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Information on the History and Preparation of Traditional Irish Soda Bread as created by our ancestors. This site is here to encourage modern bakers to get in touch with their Irish roots and use the traditional ingredients/recipes when making "traditional Irish soda bread." This traditional Irish soda bread bakes up into such a beautiful loaf it's hard to believe it isn't a yeast bread. It's incredibly easy, and there's no waiting I've tried several recipes for Irish soda bread, and this Traditional Irish Soda Bread is by far my favorite.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook traditional irish soda bread using 8 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Traditional Irish Soda Bread:
  1. Get 1 3/4 cups whole wheat flour
  2. Make ready 1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
  3. Make ready 1 teaspoon salt (be exact)
  4. Prepare 1 teaspoon baking soda (be exact)
  5. Prepare 2 Tablespoon butter, cold
  6. Get 1 egg
  7. Make ready 1 2/3 cups buttermilk
  8. Take 1 Tablespoon rolled oats for topping loaf

Here is a classic recipe adapted from Darina Allen, an Irish television personality and the owner of the Ballymaloe Cookery School in. Salt- also provides flavor to the loaf of bread. Flour- traditionally soft white wheat flour was used in Ireland. Includes options for sweet and savory add-ins to make it a little more "non-traditional." Happy St.

Instructions to make Traditional Irish Soda Bread:
  1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
  2. Mix both flours, salt and baking soda in a large bowl. You need plenty of room to mix the dough.
  3. Add butter in small pieces and rub in with fingers until it resembles bread crumbs.
  4. In separate bowl, whisk buttermilk and egg together.
  5. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and pour in the buttermilk/egg mixture. The last little bit of buttermilk/egg remaining in the bowl will be used to glaze the bread.
  6. Using an open hand, bring the flour and liquid together into a loose dough. The dough should be quite soft but not too sticky.
  7. Turn onto a floured work surface and gently bring the dough into a round about 1 1/2 inch thick and 8 inches across. Avoid kneading it, just form it.
  8. Place on a baking sheet that is well dusted with flour.
  9. Score with a cross on the top of the loaf. Traditionally this is called blessing the bread. You invoke Gods blessing by saying, "In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, Amen" as you score the bread. As well, the four corners are pricked with with a knife to release the fairies. This is to keep it from being cursed.
  10. Glaze the top of the loaf with the leftover buttermilk/egg mixture and sprinkle the rolled oats on the top of the loaf.
  11. Bake at 425 degrees for 15 minutes and then turn the oven down to 400 degrees and bake for 30 minutes more. When done, the loaf should sound hollow when tapped on the bottom.
  12. Place on wire rack to cool.

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