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I had some milk turning sour so I made this. I've made it before; it's so easy and we really like it. It is NOT pretty; I'm sure some people's Irish soda bread is but mine just doesn't wind up that way. Ingredients:
irish soda bread |
4 c plain flour |
1 t salt |
1 t baking soda |
1 t sugar |
2 c buttermilk or sour milk |
Directions:
1. Sieve dry ingredients into a large bowl. Scoop up
2. handfuls and allow to drop back into the bowl to
3. aerate the mixture. Add enough buttermilk to make a
4. soft dough. Now work quickly as the buttermilk and
5. soda are already reacting. Knead the dough lightly -
6. too much handling will toughen it, while too little
7. means it won't rise properly. Form a round loaf about
8. as thick as your fist. Place it on a lightly floured
9. baking sheet and cut a cross in the top with a floured
10. knife. Put at once to bake near the top of a
11. pre-heated oven, gas mark 8, 450 degrees F, for 30-45
12. minutes. When baked, the loaf will sound hollow when
13. rapped on the bottom with your knuckles. Wrap
14. immediately in a clean tea-towl to stop the crust
15. hardening too much. **Note: Wheaten bread or Brown
16. soda is made in exactly the same way but with
17. wholemeal flour replacing all or some of the white
18. flour; this mixture will probably require less
19. buttermilk. Another aviation is to add 1/2 cup of
20. sultanas to the white bread - this loaf is known as
21. Spotted Dick. Source: The Little Irish Cookbook by
22. John Murray.
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