Irish Soda Bread
One of the first traditions I started when I got married is making Irish Soda Bread for St. Patricks’ Day. I remember finding the recipe on Pinterest first, and the first year I made it I also made homemade butter with it.
Normally, I always loose the normal Soda bread recipe I used, and scramble around trying to find it again the day before St. Patrick’s day. But this time I had gotten a cookbook for Christmas and if you know me well, you know there’s a game that I absolutely LOVE! And its called Fallout. Well, because my husband loves me SO MUCH he got that for me for Christmas, and there just so happens to be a soda bread recipe in it. No more searching for that dang recipe again!
I didn’t make this recipe exact, since I had no raisins, and no cranberries. So its fruitless, but I’ve made soda bread fruitless before and it is still very good. Once I had all my ingredients measured out, it took like maybe 5-6 minutes to get all the ingredients incorporated and into the round cake pan
Ingredients:
- 4 Cups Flour
- 1/2 Cup Sugar
- 1 TSP Salt
- 1 TBSP Baking Powder
- 6TBSP Butter(or 3/4 of a stick plus more for greasing the pan)
- 1 Cup Rasins
- 1/2 cup dried cranberries
- 1 1/2 Cups Buttermilk
- 1 Egg
Directions:
Preheat Oven to 350 degrees.
In a bowl, mix all your dry ingredients. If your using a mixer, use your paddle attachment. Once your dry ingredients are incorporated, cut and add your butter. Its easiest to do this if you cut your butter into cubes first.
Mix your egg into the buttermilk and then add it to the dry ingredients. Your dough should be wet but mixed together. Add to your greased 9inch cake pan and bake for 1 hour or until a toothpick (or chopstick) comes out clean. It’s quite a simple recipe, and delicious too!
