- 30 mins
- 120 mins
Ingredients
- 4 cups All Purpose Flour
- 3 teaspoons Baking Powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons Baking Soda
- 1 cup Sugar
- 16 ounces Sour Cream
- 3 Eggs
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla
- Raisins-as much as you like
Preparation
Step 1
Mix together all dry ingredients: the flour, sugar, baking powder, and baking soda.
In a separate bowl, mix together all wet ingredients: the sour cream, eggs, and vanilla.
Now mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients.
Mix thoroughly.
Should be a slightly sticky dough texture.
Add the raisins to taste.
My family likes a lot of raisins, so I put in enough so that there's a raisin in almost every bite!
Bake at 325 degrees for about 1 to 1 1/2 hours, or until skewer comes out clean.
:::This recipe came from my grandmother, Julia O'Malley, who was very affectionately called Nanny by her 40 or so grandchildren. She was born and raised in County Meath, Ireland, where this bread was a staple. She lived to be 98 years young, and fed me this Irish Bread 'till the end! It is a pleasure to honor her memory by sharing it with you. It is a tradition in our family to make this bread every Christmas. We bake it Christmas Eve, then serve it early Christmas morning, warm, with butter and a cup of hot cocoa as we make a toast to remember Nanny and lounge in our robes and watch the kids open their gifts (ahhhhh) Shared by Eileen Shaughnessy.