Irish Soda Bread. In a large bowl, mix together flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, salt and margarine. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead slightly. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
A basic version of Irish Soda Bread that is baked in a cast iron skillet.
Try adding a tablespoon or so of sugar if you like your soda bread slightly sweet.
In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, caraway seeds, baking powder, salt and baking soda.
You can have Irish Soda Bread using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Irish Soda Bread
- Prepare 4 cups of flour.
- You need 1/2 cup of sugar.
- It's 2 tsp. of baking powder.
- It's 1 1/2 tsp. of baking soda.
- You need 1 cup of raisins.
- It's 2 of eggs.
- Prepare 14 oz. of sour cream.
- It's 4 oz. of buttermilk.
In a small bowl, whisk eggs and sour cream. It's much faster than most other bread recipes, because it does not contain any yeast. Soda bread is leavened with just baking soda, so you don't have to wait a long time for it to rise. This soda bread is a slightly fancied up Americanized version of the Irish classic, with a little butter, sugar, an egg, and some currants or raisins added to the base.
Irish Soda Bread instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Sift dry ingredients together.
- Lightly beat eggs, sour cream and buttermilk together..
- Combine dry and wet ingredients and add raisins. Mix until well blended.
- Shape mixture on a greased baking sheet into a log type form. Bake for approximatly 1 hour at 350°F!.
You can bake it in a cast iron frying pan (now that's traditional!) or an a regular baking sheet. This makes a fairly dense, rustic (ugly, even) loaf of bread that is tasty and not sweet. It is crusty and rough on the outside, chewy inside. Nummy hot with lots of butter! Irish Soda Bread is a quick bread that does not require any yeast.
