Does anybody else make Irish Soda Bread, besides me?

[oneshooter]

I use the old recipe, only four ingredients.

[Frosty1]

1. I need a good recipe

Please post?

[oneshooter]

3. It is important that you use "soft" flour, also known as cake flour.

You can not use any type od self rising flour as it has carbolic and salt in it.
425deg oven

4 cups flour
1 tsp soda
1 tsp salt
14oz Buttermilk

Combine dry ingredients, add Buttermilk and mix till all combined. Roll onto lightly floured board, knead for 2 min.
Shape into a round flat shape in a round cake pan and cut a cross in the top of the dough.

Cover the pan with another pan and bake for 30 minutes (this simulates the bastible pot) Remove cover and bake for 15 min. Loaf will have a hollow sound when tapped on the bottom.

Enjoy as is, or with butter(NOT margarine)

I bake mine in a 14" dutch oven, using oak coals, in my outside kitchen.

For a loaf of "Brown bread" use 3 cups whole wheat and one cup white flour.

[Frosty1]

4. Thank You!

[azurnoir]

10. Thank you I've never made this before but I certainly will now

I wonder for th pan would a springform pan covered with foil work?

[oneshooter]

11. I really don't know as I always build a fire and use a dutch oven.

Anybody else got any ideas?

[Warpy]

2. I did before I found out wheat was making me wheeze and itch

The four ingredient bread was a great quick bread for breakfast or even dinner. I usually made mine with currants and caraway for a sweet bread to toast for breakfast. It was so good I'd also slice it and eat it plain, no butter or jam needed.

I keep hoping the wheat sensitivity is a temporary one and that I can eat it again after a long rest. I miss baking and it's just not the same with non gluten flours and xanthan gum. The cookies are OK. The other stuff has come out flavorless.

[Granny M]

5. I have made the traditional brown Irish bread

with the very coarse wholemeal flour. I try not to eat too much bread, and that is very hard to resist. I have to move the bread basket to the other side of the table when we eat out.

[greatauntoftriplets]

6. I make it, but my recipe varies from yours.

It has butter and I add raisins to it. So good!

[oneshooter]

8. What you are making is Soda Cake.

The original Soda Bread was designed to replace, to a small extent. the potato in the daily diet of the Irish poor. It was simple and cheap to produce. The poor of Ireland did not have the coin for caraway seeds or raisins.

[Gormy Cuss]

7. I make classic soda bread but I always add caraway.

For St. Pat's I add currants too.

When I make it with whole wheat flour I don't use caraway but may throw in some chopped nuts or dillweed.

[oneshooter]

12. Got my fire up, soon coals will be available.

Making a loaf of Brown Bread tonight.

[libodem]

9. Our Irish friend, John

On the day that he makes the most delicious corned beef and cabbage. Usually he puts in some golden raisins. Yummy. Mmmmmm.