Recipe – Irish Soda Bread
A fantastic recipe from a dear friend of mine and great home cook, Marnie. I added a Swedish touch with the lingonberry jam and cloudberry jam which was hand picked and made by my girlfriend’s Auntie over here.
I made a quarter of the recipe and it was enough for 8 slices
Recipe
- 1kg organic white flour
- 5g sodium bicarbonate
- 7g salt
- 15g sugar, castor or granulated
- 60g melted butter
- 450g buttermilk (To make your own, take 430g milk, 20g white wine vinegar, mix and leave to stand for 5 mins)
- 1 large egg
- 5g grated orange or lemon zest (I used lemon in this recipe)
- 250g dried currants, saltanas or raisins (I used raisins in this recipe)
- A touch of flour to coat the raisins so they don’t clog up in the wet mix
Method
- Pre heat oven to 375f/190c
- Sift flour, bi carb, salt, sugar together
- Add the melted butter and zest and mix well
- Beat the egg and mix with the buttermilk
- Add to the flour mix and bring the ingredients together with a wooden spoon or similar
- Add the currants/raisins
- Turn the mix onto a floured surface
- Knead into a ball
- Make a cross incision on the top
- Bake on a baking sheet for approx 50 mins
- Should be hollow when tapped
- Leave to stand for 5-10 mins before slicing
Enjoy!!
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- Irish soda bread, cloudberry jam
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- ready to bake
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- Irish soda bread at sunset..
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- Irish soda bread
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- Irish soda bread, fresh out of oven at sunset…
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- Irish soda bread, cloudberry and lingonberry jam
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- Irish soda bread, lingonberry jam
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The only ingredient that seems to differ from the one I made is the Sodium bicarbonate but the texture of yours looks incredibly different! How strange- maybe you just have the special chefs touch! Looks great
I looove soda bread ^^ Happy to see it here
Aww thanks Megalagom! lucky touch I call it though as it was the first time I’d made it
I saw yours and it looked good too, more rough in texture and perhaps that could be with length of time the dough was kneaded? I kneaded mine for approx 7 mins until it was smooth. As long as it tastes good that’s what counts! 
it’s so nice to see different recipes! I’ve never heard of this bread but it looks so yummy!!!!!
Thanks Pinuccia, well worth trying and very quick to make!
Hello, You have inspired me a lot. So, I have nominated your blog for the Sunshine Award. You can see your nomination here and get an idea of the rules.
http://cookingwithmamamiyuki.wordpress.com/2012/04/06/the-sunshine-award-on-my-100-posts/
Thank you so much for the nomination, I’m truly honoured. I am very busy with other things at present, but if it’s ok would like to look at this in the next week at some point. All the best, Gavin
I make Irish soda bread every year in March I must say yours is looking really good!
Many thanks bakergirl05! It was a first attempt back then, not made it since so could be about time to dust off the recipe again
Thank you kindly for the compliments to my blog !