If you are looking to serve up some traditional Irish Recipes, consider making a loaf of this Irish Soda Bread. This bread will be great with any meal but an essential side with any St. Patrick’s Day meal. Sure to please all at breakfast with jam and then butter for lunch or dinner. This Irish Soda Bread is absolutely delish. My hubby made us this loaf in no time at all to enjoy with our stew last week.
Irish Soda Bread
My daughter and I are both “dunkers”. We love to dunk bread in our soups and stews. This bread was perfect for dunking. It was great the following morning with jam too!
The hubby said he would make us another loaf or two of this Traditional Irish Soda Bread to enjoy with our other St Patrick’s Day recipes we have planned. I am thinking this bread will be perfect all year long.
This bread, like many breads, does not require many ingredients. Recipes with few ingredients always come together so quickly. You most likely have all the ingredients needed on hand.
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
DIRECTIONS
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.
Did you try this with raisins???
Definitely want to try hope the raisin won’t mess up the ingredients??
Haven’t eaten it yet but it looks just like the picture. Can’t wait to try it. I took it out after 35 minutes, toothpick came out clean and it was getting pretty brown.
Such a quick and easy recipe.
I’m a dunker, too, and I think I need to make this with a bowl of my favorite soup! Thank you so much for sharing on Best of the Weekend!
This looks so good. Thank you for sharing on Show Me Saturday!
My mom always made Irish soda bread on St. Paddy’s Day when I was growing up! I always thought it would be a great bread to make anytime of the year too! Yours looks delicious! Thanks for sharing and reminding me to make some this year!
No yeast? I’m in! Looks amazing! Thanks so much for linking this up at Best of the Weekend! Pinning!
Soda bread is so great! I love that I pretty much always have the ingredients on hand (well, except the buttermilk, but I usually sub in regular milk and it comes out fine). I’ll have to try brushing the bread to make it come out as pretty as yours does.
You can make buttermilk at home! For every cup of milk you use, use a tablespoon of lemon juice or white vinegar and let it sit for 10 minutes. Then boom! Buttermilk!
That’s so great your husband bakes bread — I need to share that little tidbit of info with mine! Thanks for this recipe. I’m starting to think of my St. Patrick’s Day menu and this bread looks like a winner. Really nice of you to stop by the Inspire Me Monday’s Link-Up. We look forward to seeing you around!
This looks delicious! I will definitely be trying this recipe out…thanks for sharing!
Love, love this! We are gearing up in green for St. Patrick’s day and celebrating it with a sweet shamrock shake! I would love for you to stop over and check out my shamrock shake recipe! :-)
Cathy
Thank you for posting this- I used to work at an irish pub about a million years ago and I fell in love with soda bread. I can’t wait to try making it!
I stopped over from Motivation Monday.
Oh My Yummmm!! This looks like a great, easy recipe for soda bread and your photos really make me want to take a BIG bite! Thanks for sharing it with us :)