This is the best Irish Soda Bread Recipe you’ll serve at your kitchen table!
When you are looking for an original Irish Soda Bread recipe, make sure you choose one that doesn’t have a lot of special ingredients or complicated steps.
Sometimes the best recipes are often the most simple to make.
And because this recipe is easy to put together, you’ll not want to skimp on the buttermilk.
The buttermilk is an important ingredient. You don’t want to choose a recipe for Irish Soda Bread without buttermilk or it just won’t taste like the traditional bread everyone loves.
You can add raisins or even chocolate chips to this moist Irish Soda Bread if you’d like to, but the best soda bread, in my opinion, is just a moist Irish Soda Bread traditional recipe like the one below.
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Original Irish Soda Bread Ingredients:
- Flour
- Sugar
- Baking Soda
- Baking Powder
- Salt
- Butter
- Butter
- Buttermilk
- Egg
How to Make Soda Bread
Preheat oven to 375.
Grease a baking sheet.
Mix together flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
Add 1/2 cup butter, 1 cup buttermilk and egg to dry ingredients and mix until combined.
Flour work surface.
Turn out dough and knead briefly.
Shape dough into a round shape and place on prepared sheet.
Whisk together 1/4 cup melted butter with 1/4 cup buttermilk.
Brush loaf with buttermilk mixture.
Cut an X in the top of the loaf.
Bake 45 minutes or until toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean.
Brush with buttermilk mixture every 15 minutes or so while baking.
Irish Soda Bread
Ingredients
- 4 cup Flour
- 4 tbsp Sugar
- 1 tsp Baking Soda
- 1 tbsp Baking Powder
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1/2 cup softened Butter
- 1/4 cup melted Butter
- 1 1/4 cup Buttermilk
- 1 Egg
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375.
- Grease a baking sheet.
- Mix together flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
- Add 1/2 cup butter, 1 cup buttermilk and egg to dry ingredients and mix until combined.
- Flour work surface.
- Turn out dough and knead briefly.
- Shape dough into a round shape and place on prepared sheet.
- Whisk together 1/4 cup melted butter with 1/4 cup buttermilk.
- Brush loaf with buttermilk mixture.
- Cut an X in the top of the loaf.
- Bake 45 minutes or until toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean.
- Brush with buttermilk mixture every 15 minutes or so while baking.
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Roberta Valella says
Beautiful recipe! My Irish husband loved it, he is not crazy about raisins and seeds, this was perfect with our lamb stew, thank you!
Kristie Sawicki says
I am so happy to hear this!!
Karen A Cronk says
Where are the caraway seeds and raisins? My authentic Irish Soda Bread recipe has both! After removing from oven, I brush top with butter and sprinkle a bit of sugar over the top, too.
Sara says
Can I add lemon juice to milk to make my own buttermilk?
Kristie Sawicki says
Yes you can.
Kim says
Should one use salted or unsalted butter? I look forward to making this recipe.
Kristie Sawicki says
I have always just used unsalted. Can’t wait to hear how you like it!
Joel says
Not bad, now add raisins and poppy seeds. Caraway seeds add a great touch also. Topped with melted real butter ( Kerry gold) and sugar.