In honor of the upcoming holiday, I decided to give you a recipe for a traditional Irish treat. Soda Bread! This is a pretty simple bread recipe given to me by my grandmother who is so Irish it's just plain silly. She would always make it around St. Patrick's Day and I thought I would as well.
IRISH SODA BREAD
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/3 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 egg, lightly beaten
2 cups buttermilk
1/4 cup butter, melted
1.Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan.
2.Combine flour, baking powder, sugar, salt and baking soda. Blend egg and buttermilk together,
and add all at once to the flour mixture. Mix just until moistened. Stir in butter. Pour into prepared
pan.
3.Bake for 65 to 70 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the bread comes out clean. Cool on a
wire rack. Wrap in foil for several hours, or overnight, for best flavor.
Make it today and you'll have a great surprise for your friends and family when tomorrow comes
around! I hope you enjoy it.
I wish I had read your post earlier! Unfortuently we did not have Irish soda bread this year. But there is always next time! Thanks for another tasty post.
ReplyDeleteAs always, great posts. I missed the recipe for St. Patrick's day, but I'll have to try it out anyway. Looks good.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely LOVE soda bread! I am so greatful you posted this because I have never seen a recipe! I'll have to try this one out!
ReplyDeleteLauren,
ReplyDeleteI have a simple question. As you are posting these recipes on your blog, are you making each of them that week as well? If you are, I would love to have you bring a sample of each to class for a taste test. Maybe you could plan to have people in the class commit to making one of the recipes and we could have an in class judging of all the yummy treats we could have. That would be the greatest class of the semester. :)
That would be the best class ever! I do make them each week and usually just end up giving most of the left overs to friends..... They have few complaints :)
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