🍲 Irish Soda Bread

Bread · 8 ingredients · 9 steps

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Conventional bread, containing live yeast, leavens (rises) as the micro-organisms make carbon dioxide gas as a by-product of their metabolism. Similarly, soda bread utilizes the reaction between baking soda and vinegar, or some other acid, to make the bread rise through the production of carbon dioxide. This recipe uses buttermilk, or optionally a combination of milk and vinegar, but other recipes use sour cream.

Prep: 15 minutes Baking: 50-70 minutesserves 82
Cook for servings as written The source's own quantities, rounded to the nearest mark on a cup or a spoon. A line carrying a second number of its own — a weight in another unit, a count of pieces — is left as written.

Ingredients

  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ⅛ cup white sugar
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 egg, lightly beaten
  • 2 cups buttermilk
  • ¼ cup butter, melted

Method

  1. Preheat oven to 325°F (160°C).
  2. Grease and flour a 9x5-inch loaf pan.
  3. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, sugar, and salt in a large mixing bowl.
  4. Blend egg and buttermilk together, and add all at once to the flour mixture.
  5. Mix until just moistened. Too much mixing will make it tough.
  6. Stir in butter; pour into prepared pan.
  7. Bake for 65–70 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the bread comes out clean. The loaf should sound hollow if you tap the base.
  8. Cool on a wire rack.
  9. Wrap in tea-towel or foil several hours or overnight for best flavor.
Where this came from. Adapted from Irish Soda Bread in the Wikibooks Cookbook, written by its contributors and published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page changes the layout and nothing else: the ingredients, the quantities and the steps are the source's. If you improve on it, the Cookbook welcomes edits.

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