Recipe of Quick Traditional Irish Soda Bread

Traditional Irish Soda Bread. Heat a heavy skillet, griddle, or cast-iron frying pan over medium-low heat. Stir the flour and salt together in a bowl, and sift in the baking soda. Make a well in the center of the flour mixture, and pour in the buttermilk.

While soda bread with add-ins like currants and caraway can be delicious, it's not at all authentic. In Ireland, soda bread tends to be plainer and more restrained. Here is a classic recipe adapted from Darina Allen, an Irish television personality and the owner of the Ballymaloe Cookery School in Shanagarry.

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Heat a heavy skillet, griddle, or cast-iron frying pan over medium-low heat. Stir the flour and salt together in a bowl, and sift in the baking soda. Make a well in the center of the flour mixture, and pour in the buttermilk.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have traditional irish soda bread using 8 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Traditional Irish Soda Bread:

1. Make ready 1 3/4 cups of whole wheat flour.
2. Make ready 1 3/4 cups of all purpose flour.
3. Take 1 teaspoon of salt (be exact).
4. Take 1 teaspoon of baking soda (be exact).
5. Prepare 2 Tablespoon of butter, cold.
6. Take 1 of egg.
7. Make ready 1 2/3 cups of buttermilk.
8. Get 1 Tablespoon of rolled oats for topping loaf.

Using a sharp knife, make a shallow cross in top of loaf. Whisk remaining egg; brush over top. Remove from pan to a wire rack. This authentic family recipe requires only six easy-to-find ingredients you probably already have on hand: milk, vinegar, flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt.

Steps to make Traditional Irish Soda Bread:

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees..
2. Mix both flours, salt and baking soda in a large bowl. You need plenty of room to mix the dough..
3. Add butter in small pieces and rub in with fingers until it resembles bread crumbs..
4. In separate bowl, whisk buttermilk and egg together..
5. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and pour in the buttermilk/egg mixture. The last little bit of buttermilk/egg remaining in the bowl will be used to glaze the bread..
6. Using an open hand, bring the flour and liquid together into a loose dough. The dough should be quite soft but not too sticky..
7. Turn onto a floured work surface and gently bring the dough into a round about 1 1/2 inch thick and 8 inches across. Avoid kneading it, just form it..
8. Place on a baking sheet that is well dusted with flour..
9. Score with a cross on the top of the loaf. Traditionally this is called blessing the bread. You invoke Gods blessing by saying, "In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, Amen" as you score the bread. As well, the four corners are pricked with with a knife to release the fairies. This is to keep it from being cursed..
10. Glaze the top of the loaf with the leftover buttermilk/egg mixture and sprinkle the rolled oats on the top of the loaf..
11. Bake at 425 degrees for 15 minutes and then turn the oven down to 400 degrees and bake for 30 minutes more. When done, the loaf should sound hollow when tapped on the bottom..
12. Place on wire rack to cool..

Reviewers say this bread is perfectly crispy on the outside, but moist and soft on the inside. In a large bowl, combine the flour, baking soda and salt. Gradually stir in the buttermilk until the dough comes together in a slightly sticky ball. Turn dough onto a floured surface and knead gently a few times. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or grease well; set aside.

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