Original Irish Soda Bread Recipe

Traditional Irish Soda Bread recipe.

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This is the best Irish Soda Bread Recipe you’ll serve at your kitchen table!

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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 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

Traditional Irish Soda Bread recipe.

3.75 from 40 votes

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Course: Bread

Cuisine: irish

Keyword: authentic, raisin, soda bread

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 45 minutes

Servings: 6

Calories: 580kcal

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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Notes

This is the best authentic Irish recipe for traditional soda bread.

Nutrition

Calories: 580kcal | Carbohydrates: 75g | Protein: 11g | Fat: 26g | Saturated Fat: 16g | Cholesterol: 94mg | Sodium: 883mg | Potassium: 167mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 11g | Vitamin A: 831IU | Calcium: 198mg | Iron: 4mg

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