Thursday, November 19, 2009

Irish Soda Bread

Most soda bread recipes in the States have twice as many ingredients as are found in this recipe but this is how the Irish make it. Great served with a hearty homemade soup or stew!

1 lb all purpose flour
1 level teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1 teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
about 14 fluid oz. buttermilk

Instructions:
Mix all the dry ingredients together in a large bowl. Gradually mix in the buttermilk to give a moist dough. Place in a greased loaf pan and bake in a preheated oven at 450 F/230 C for 30 minutes, until the loaf sounds hollow when turned out of the tin and tapped underneath. Place on a wire rack to cool.

Variation: Replace half of the white flour with wheat flour. Add sultanas to make a nice breakfast bread.

Yield: 1 large loaf.

1 comment:

cbass said...

LOVE the blog, Dana, heck yes you knows I'll be comin here....may I put in a request?....how about Irish Boxties!!!! YUM, I'm starving already :)))

Can't wait to "Betty Crocker" with ya...