Irish Soda Bread
By es123
Ingredients
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 4 tablespoons cold unsalted butter
- 1 cup raisins
- 2 tablespoons caraway seed
- 1 3/4 cups well-shaken buttermilk
Details
Preparation
Step 1
Preheat oven to 375 F. Butter and flour a large baking sheet, knocking off excess flour.
Sift together flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt into a large bowl. Cut in butter with a pastry cutter or your fingers until the butter is pea-sized lumps. Add raisins and caraway, then add buttermilk and stir just until dough is evenly moistened but still lumpy.
Transfer dough to a well-floured surface and gently knead with floured hands about 8 times to form a soft but slightly less sticky dough, then form into a ball. Pat dough ball into a domed 8-inch round on baking sheet. Cut a 1/2-inch-deep X on top of each loaf with a sharp knife.
Bake in the middle of oven until golden brown and bottom sounds hollow when tapped, 45 to 55 minutes. Transfer to rack to cool completely.
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