irish soda bread

How To Make irish soda bread

• Step 1
  Oven to 375 degrees. Coat 8-9" round cake pan with PAM. In large bowl, combine flour, 4 T sugar, powder, salt and soda. Add butter, rubbing it into flour mixture with your fingers until coarse meal forms.
• Step 2
  Make well in center of mixture and pour in buttermilk. Stir to blend. Stir in raisins. Flour hands and shape dough into a ball.
• Step 3
  Transfer dough to pan, flatten slightly but not to edges of pan. Sprinkle with remaining sugar. Bake 40 min or toothpick test. Remove from oven let sit 10 min. Then cool on wire rack.
• Step 4
  Note: you can serve this, traditionally, with a cup of tea, buttered with your favorite fruit preserves. This is good warm, at room temperature, or toasted the next day if you have leftovers.
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