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March 18, 2013 Bread

Irish Soda Bread

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St. Patricks Day is now over, but I wanted to share a recipe for something I helped to make this weekend… Irish Soda Bread. The recipe is quite simple, which for my skill level is a good thing.

The only part of the process I was unfamiliar with was ‘cutting’ the butter into the flour, but it was simple enough. Doing a little research I found out that there are apparently many ways to do this but we did it the old fashioned way, using 2 knifes. It was simple enough and didn’t take very long. The whole recipe took 10-15 minutes to make, at most.

Personally I don’t love raisins, so I made one without and it was still really delicious so feel free to tailor this to your preferences.

Since I took a lot of photos along the way, I thought I would try out a new collage idea for the remainder of the post.

Many thanks to my friend Megan Swartz for sharing a delicious old family recipe!

new-soda-bread-collage

Irish Soda Bread
 
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Ingredients
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 tsp. baking soda
  • 1 tsp. baking powder
  • ½ tsp. salt
  • 2 tbsp. sugar
  • ¼ cup butter, soft
  • ½ cup raisins
  • 2 tbsp. caraway or fennel seed
  • 3 tbsp. cider vinegar
  • ¾ cup milk
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
  2. Sift flower into mixing bowl
  3. Mix in baking soda, baking powder, salt and sugar
  4. Cut in butter until corn like mixture.
  5. Stir in raisins and caraway or fennel seed.
  6. In a small bowl mix milk and vinegar together.
  7. Make a well in the center of the flour mixture.
  8. Add all the liquid at one time, stirring until everything is moist.
  9. Turn dough onto a floured surface.
  10. Knead dough 8-10 times.
  11. Shape dough into a ball, place on a greased tray and cut a cross into the top.
  12. Bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes
  13. Reduce oven temperature to 375 degrees and bake for another 30 minutes.
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I'm a UI Engineer by trade which makes me the de facto site guy. I'm also a photographer, potter and part time baker. And with this blog, I suppose I am an occasional writer as well.

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