Irish Soda Bread
Irish Soda Bread

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Traditional Irish Soda Bread is a dense and moist bread that requires no rising time and just four simple ingredients to make. This Irish Soda Bread is a delicious recipe that goes back many many. Soda bread is a variety of quick bread traditionally made in a variety of cuisines in which sodium bicarbonate (otherwise known as "baking soda", or in Ireland, "bread soda") is used as a leavening agent instead of the traditional yeast.

Irish Soda Bread is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Irish Soda Bread is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

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

The ingredients needed to make Irish Soda Bread:
  1. Take 3 c. all-purpose flour
  2. Get 1 T. brown sugar
  3. Prepare 2 T. granulated sugar
  4. Get 1 T. baking powder
  5. Make ready 1 t. baking soda
  6. Make ready 1/2 t. kosher salt
  7. Take 4 T. very cold butter, cut into pats
  8. Take 1 c. buttermilk, divided
  9. Prepare 2 eggs, divided
  10. Get 1/2 c. raisins or dried currants
  11. Prepare 1 t. caraway seeds (optional)
  12. Take cinnamon-sugar mixture (optional)

Like so many delicious breads, Irish Soda Bread is the product of a time when fancy ingredients weren't available or affordable, so it's made with only the most basic ingredients. Traditional Irish Soda Bread has a particular look, but do you know what it is? The marking on top is a cross. It comes from blessing the bread before baking.

Instructions to make Irish Soda Bread:
  1. Preheat oven to 375°F.
  2. Sift together dry (first six) ingredients.
  3. Cut butter into flour mixture using a pastry cutter or fork.
  4. Beat together 3/4 c. buttermilk and 1 egg.
  5. Add wet to dry along with raisins and seeds. Combine with stiff spoon.
  6. With clean hands, knead mildly and form dough into a ball. DO NOT over-knead!
  7. Press ball into lightly-greased cast-iron pan, round cake pan, or pie plate.
  8. Using a floured serrated knife, cut a cross (+) into top of loaf.
  9. Beat together 2nd egg and the remaining 1/4 c. buttermilk. Brush over top and sides of loaf.
  10. Sprinkle very lightly with cinnamon sugar.
  11. Bake 40 minutes or until cake pick comes out clean.
  12. Remove to cooling rack.

Also you poke a hole in each corner of the loaf. For quick and easy bread, make Ina Garten's Irish Soda Bread recipe from Barefoot Contessa on Food Network � just mix, knead and bake. Irish soda bread is a hearty, delicious baked treat that is usually enjoyed around Saint Patrick's Day. However, this easy-to-make bread can be enjoyed all year for breakfast, lunch, or dinner! This Irish soda bread recipe results in a simple rustic bread made with very few ingredients.

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