Irish Soda Bread is a very easy recipe to make! Buttermilk and baking soda give this bread its rise and a delicious flavor. Classic Irish Soda Bread is the perfect way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day or any day of the year!
Easy and so delicious, Irish Soda Bread is something you should make! And with St Patrick’s Day coming up soon making a loaf is a great way to celebrate! This bread should not be saved for this time of the year only but be made often! Oh YUM! Let’s make classic Irish Soda Bread!
Traditional Irish Soda Bread is not a yeast bread but a quick bread that is made with buttermilk, and baking soda. This bread does not usually use eggs and it gets a little sweetness from a little sugar.
Irish Soda Bread With Raisins And Caraway Seeds
It’s not like what we would think of as regular bread. There is no kneading and resting. It’s called quick bread because it uses other leavenings that don’t need time to develop.
Irish Soda Bread has a nice golden crust and a tight dense crumb. It’s deliciously soft and tender inside. The crust is crunchy when it comes out of the oven
A couple of years ago I took an Ancestry DNA test. And to my surprise and delight, I found out that I am Irish! All three percent of me! The surname Lynch is peppered through one line of my ancestors from Ireland! So, to honor my Irish roots we will celebrate with this iconically Irish bread!
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Necessity is the mother of invention in the case of this yummy bread. Two events that really had nothing to do with each other collided and Irish Soda Bread was born.
In 1840 Bicarbonate of soda (baking soda) became easily available and in 1845-49 the Irish suffered the Great Potato Famine. Famine and poverty became a way of life for many Irish so they used the most inexpensiveingredientsthat were readily available and made Soda Bread.
Originally, sour milk was used to make Irish Soda Bread. Later in the post, I’ll show you how to make sour milk by adding vinegar orlemon juice.
Sourdough Discard Irish Soda Bread
And this simple and tasty recipe has spanned centuries and continents and is a very popular bread here in the United States. Pretty cool, right?
So every time you and I make Irish Soda Bread it’s good to remember that we are making a tasty bit of history!
There is no yeast in Soda Bread. Instead, the lactic acid inbuttermilkreacts with thebakingsoda and leavens the bread, or makes it rise! It’s a delicious chemical reaction!
Traditional Irish Soda Bread Without Buttermilk
My Nani said that she and her siblings would fight over who would get the leftover buttermilk. And that must have been quite a fight since she was one of eleven!
Use one TBSP of white vinegar or lemon juice and add enough milk to make one cup. Stir it together and let it sit for 5 minutes and it is ready to use!
The cross in this round bread is iconic. Besides, the cross making this bread easily identifiable it also serves an important two-fold purpose.
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First, it helps the oven heat get to the center of the bread promoting even baking, and it lets the steam out of the bread in a controlled way so it does not burst out of the bread breaking it open.
Irish soda bread is very straightforward and very easy to make! But to guarantee your bread comes out the best it can, here are some helpful tips.
I like to use my grandmother’s pastry cutter. But if you have cool hands you can use your hands. Or cut them with knives.
Easy Irish Soda Bread Recipe
Nani’s pastry cutter was once painted red but from decades of use, the paint wore off. Every time I use it I think of my grandmother’s lovely well-worn hands I loved so much!
If desired, add the raisins, currant, or any other ingredients like orange zest (YUM) to the flour and butter mixture. Caraway seeds are also a traditional ingredient in Irish Soda Bread.
I made my Irish Soda Bread with dried currants. Growing up in Scotland and England I became very fond of these little ruby gems. They are similar to raisins but are sweeter, smaller, and a little tangy.
Grandma's Irish Soda Bread
Regular dark raisins and golden raisins are made from the same grape. Dark raisins are sun-dried and golden raisins are dried mechanically.
If you bake, parchment paper is a must! I like to bake bread on parchment because the bead comes out of a pan without burning my fingers!
One tip that really makes a difference is to crumple up the parchment paper and then straighten it out before you use it so it fits into any pan!
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This wonderful tasty bread can be baked in a cast iron skillet, which is the usual way to bake it. Or it can be made on a sheet pan or a dutch oven. Our cast iron pan is in our RV so I used an enamel pot, which works great too, to bake our bread.
One way to tell if bread is done is to turn it over and gently tap on the bottom of it. It should have a wonderful hollow sound! Oh, that is a marvelous sound! It’s the sound of bread success!
It’s almost impossible for me not to eat this bread warm slathered with butter. So I let it cool a bit and then using a serrated knife I cut off a thick slice!
White Soda Bread
Toasting Irish soda bread is my favorite way to eat it. It’s best toasted a day or two after it is made.Irish Soda Bread is a quick bread that does not require any yeast. Instead, all of its leavening comes from baking soda and buttermilk. This Irish soda bread recipe is my grandmother’s and has been cherished in my family for years. It’s dense, yet soft and has the most incredible crusty exterior. Buttermilk and cold butter are the secret to its delicious success!
Welcome to my favorite Irish Soda Bread recipe. I shared this no yeast bread recipe on my blog a few years ago and decided to revisit with fresh new pictures and a video tutorial. This recipe is my grandmother’s. She passed away in 2011, 2 weeks before I started this food blog. I dedicated my 1st cookbook to her. Full of energy and the creator of the best homemade pie crust on earth, she would be in her 90s today. St. Patrick’s Day is her birthday.
Does the thought of homemade bread send you running for the hills? Sometimes homemade bread feels daunting, but you’re in luck today. Irish soda bread is a quick bread made with baking soda, not yeast. Like my easy no yeast bread, this is a shortcut bread that doesn’t skimp on flavor. (If you want a yeast bread, I recommend my sandwich bread recipe!)
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My grandmother’s Irish soda bread contains some sugar, but it’s not overly sweet. It’s a wonderful companion for savory dinners like hearty stew or you can serve it with butter, jam, and/or cheese. The raisins are optional, but Grandma would never let you skip them.
The full printable recipe is below. Irish soda bread dough comes together in about 10 minutes. You need buttermilk, egg, flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, and butter.
Irish soda bread only requires a few ingredients, including buttermilk. Buttermilk reacts with the baking soda to provide the bread’s leavening. It also adds wonderful flavor! We use buttermilk for the same reasons in my regular no yeast bread, too.
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Irish soda bread can be made with or without an egg. 1 egg adds richness and density. Feel free to skip it to make a slightly lighter loaf. No other changes necessary, simply leave out the egg.
If you’re baking for St. Patrick’s Day, you’ll love my Guinness Brownies, Baileys and Coffee Cupcakes, Guinness Chocolate Cake, Guinness Chocolate Cupcakes, and shamrock St. Patrick’s Day Cookies, too.
Irish Soda Bread is a quick bread that does not require any yeast. Instead, all of its leavening comes from baking soda and buttermilk. This Irish Soda Bread recipe is my grandmother’s and has been cherished in my family for years. It’s dense, yet soft and has the most incredible crusty exterior.
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Sally McKenney is a professional food photographer, cookbook author, and baker. Her kitchen-tested recipes and thorough step-by-step tutorials give readers the knowledge and confidence to bake from scratch. Sally has been featured onSearching for the best Irish soda bread recipe? Look no further! This authentic recipe comes straight from Ireland. So easy to make with just 4 ingredients.
Today’s is super-special, because as you may know, I just returned from a fabulous trip to Ireland, where I learned all about Irish baking, straight from the experts! I’m so thrilled to be sharing this authentic Irish soda bread recipe with you!
If you are looking for some really fun St. Patty’s Day foods, be sure to check out my Shamrock Shake Macarons, Pot of Gold Cupcakes, and Rainbow Fruity Pebble Cake.
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I learned it at the Ballymaloe Cookery School in Cork, Ireland. I have always wanted to go there, so it was truly a “pinch me” kind of moment! It really felt
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