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Irish Soda Bread
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Irish, Baking, Bread, Winter, St. Patrick's Day

Provided By:
Ian Knauer

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    • This version of the classic Irish soda bread is delicately sweetened with raisins and has an intriguing nuttiness from caraway. It's also quick to make (thanks to the leavening power of the soda) and a fun way to sop up corned beef juices.

    Ingredients

    Makes: loaf

    Directions

    Preheat oven to 375 F. Butter and flour a large baking sheet, knocking off excess flour.

    Sift together flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt into a large bowl. Cut in butter with a pastry cutter or your fingers until the butter is pea-sized lumps. Add raisins and caraway, then add buttermilk and stir just until dough is evenly moistened but still lumpy.

    Transfer dough to a well-floured surface and gently knead with floured hands about 8 times to form a soft but slightly less sticky dough, then form into a ball. Pat dough ball into a domed 8-inch round on baking sheet. Cut a 1/2-inch-deep X on top of each loaf with a sharp knife.

    Bake in the middle of oven until golden brown and bottom sounds hollow when tapped, 45 to 55 minutes. Transfer to rack to cool completely.

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    dickn2000b

    Being myself Irish, let me assure and inform those who read the recipe for Irish Soda Bread that Authentic Irish Soda Bread has no fruit in it...NONE! The crap you buy in your local supermarket, and this recipe is an invention of some dumbass in America and has no connection or knowledge of what constitutes authentic Irish Soda Bread.

    March 17 2011 at 7:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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