traditional irish soda bread

Name: Traditional Irish Soda Bread
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 45 min
Cuisine: Irish
Ingredients: 4 cup(s) all purpose flour; 1 teaspoon(s) baking soda; 1 teaspoon(s) salt; 14 ounce(s) buttermilk

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Andrea Sumner

Derby, KS

Updated on Mar 10, 2012

It's hard to find Irish flour so I use cake flour. You can easily use all purpose flour. Traditional Irish Soda Bread has no sugar, I was always told if it has sugar or baking powder, it's cake. I use my cast iron Dutch oven for this in place of bastible pot because that's what I grew up seeing used but have friend who has used 2 cake pans, one turned over as a lid.

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prep time 10 Min

cook time 45 Min

method Bake

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Ingredients

4 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
14 ounces buttermilk

How To Make traditional irish soda bread

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 425 F. degrees. Lightly grease and flour bastible pot or a cake pan.

Step 2

In a large bowl sieve and combine all the dry ingredients.
Step 3

Add the buttermilk to form a sticky dough.
Step 4

Place on floured surface and lightly knead (too much allows the gas to escape) Shape into a round flat shape in a bastible pot, dutch oven, or round cake pan and cut a cross in the top of the dough.
Step 5

Cover and bake, if using cake pan, cover the pan with another pan and bake for 30 minutes (this simulates the bastible pot). Remove cover and bake for an additional 15 minutes. The bottom of the bread will have a hollow sound when tapped so show it is done. Cover the bread in a tea towel and lightly sprinkle water on the cloth to keep the bread moist.
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