Are you looking for something Irish for St. Patrick’s Day how about about Irish Soda Bread?? How Irish is that???With just a few ingrediants most you probably have on hand you can have this bread hot out of the oven in a very short amount of time!! The caraway seeds and raisins can be left out if you want. This bread is just as good. Of course any warm bread with melted soft butter seeping into the crevices of the bread how can this be bad!!
This is such an easy bread to pull together and bake up!
Isnt that beautiful?? Golden brown studded with raisins!! So delicious!!
With butter and honey all I can say is yummmmmm!!!
Irish Soda Bread
Ingredients
- 1/2 C white sugar
- 4 C all-purpose flour....divided
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 3 C raisins
- 1 Tbsp caraway seeds optional
- 2 eggs lightly beaten
- 1 1/4 C buttermilk
- 1 C sour cream
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. -Grease a 9 inch round baking or cake pan. -In a mixing bowl, combine flour (reserve 1 tablespoon), sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, raisins (optional) , and caraway seeds (optional) -In a smaller bowl, blend eggs, buttermilk, and sour cream. -Stir the liquid mixture into the flour mixture just until flour is moistened. -Knead dough in bowl about 10 to 12 strokes. -Dough will be sticky. -Place the dough in the prepared pan and pat down. -Cut a 4 x 3/4 inch deep slit in the top of the bread. -Dust with 1 Tbsp flour. -Bake in preheated oven for 65 to 75 minutes. -Let cool and turn bread out onto a wire rack.
Nicole (Bellenza) says
Yummers! 🙂