Description
I have never found an irish soda bread recipe (or commericially available loaf) that can hold a candle to this recipe. It is simple to make and you can also mix the dry ingredients, add a hang-tag listing the wet ingredients and baking instructions and you have an outrageously good gift.
This is an absolutely authentic irish recipe, and if you have never had a soda bread with fruit or caraway, it is probably due to the baker's preference to omit it, cost cutting measures or the way in which this recipe is prepared in a few regions of the country.
Note: if you don't like caraway seeds, currants or raisins, don't add them. And don't overmix this dough. I blend wet and dry ingredients with a large spooon only until incorporated.
Also, if like pretty111, you provide a low-star review because you think the recipe isn't traditional, don't bother. This recipe is not listed as "traditional", just delicious. I think that if you do not try a recipe, you have some nerve giving it a low-star review. It is just unfair.
Ingredients
- Flour
- Baking Soda
- Baking Powder
- Sugar
- Cream Of Tartar
- Butter
- Eggs
- Sour Cream
- Buttermilk
- Caraway Seed
- Currants
- Oatmeal
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees farenheit
- Butter and flour a pie plate or round cake pan
- Sprinkle uncooked oats on the bottom of the pan
- Combine dry ingredients and currants
- Mix melted butter, eggs and then buttermilk and sour cream
- Stir in dry ingredients only until incorporated
- Put dough into a prepared pie pan, in a mound with a rounded top
- Cut an x in the top of the loaf
- Bake for 50 minutes