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Irish Soda Bread

Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Servings: 8 Difficulty: medium

Categories: Bread, Vegetarian, Baked

Tags: baking, easy, inexpensive, irish, recipes for bread, recipes using all-purpose flour, recipes using baking powder, recipes using baking soda, recipes using butter, recipes using buttermilk, recipes using egg, vegetarian

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3AIrish_Soda_Bread)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3AIrish%20Soda%20Bread&oldid=4541030

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

3 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
⅛ cup white sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 egg, lightly beaten
2 cups buttermilk
¼ cup butter, melted

Directions

Preheat oven to 325°F (160°C).
Grease and flour a 9x5-inch loaf pan.
Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, sugar, and salt in a large mixing bowl.
Blend egg and buttermilk together, and add all at once to the flour mixture.
Mix until just moistened. Too much mixing will make it tough.
Stir in butter; pour into prepared pan.
Bake for 65–70 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the bread comes out clean. The loaf should sound hollow if you tap the base.
Cool on a wire rack.
Wrap in tea-towel or foil several hours or overnight for best flavor.

Notes

May serve toasted and buttered.

Soda bread rises as a result of acid being mixed with baking soda. The acid is commonly in the form of vinegar, lemon juice, or buttermilk. A tablespoon of lemon juice or vinegar in one cup of milk can be substituted for each cup of buttermilk.

For best results, bake it at 375°F (190°C), for about 50 minutes, on a preheated baking stone.