Easy Irish Soda Bread (Ina Garten recipe)
Irish Soda Bread is a slightly sweet quick bread that is especially popular around Saint Patrick's Day. Baking soda and buttermilk serve as the rising agent instead of yeast, which makes this a very quick, but delicious loaf of bread. The slices are yummy warm from the oven or toasted and spread with butter and jam or marmalade. The addition of orange zest really amps up the flavor of this traditional bread.
INGREDIENTS
4 cups all purpose flour, plus extra for currants
4 tablespoons sugar (or less if you prefer)
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
4 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into 1/2 inch dice ( 1/2 stick)
1 3/4 cup cold buttermilk, shaken
1 extra large egg, lightly beaten ( I used a large egg)
1 teaspoon orange zest
1 cup dried currants (or raisins/dried cranberries)
METHOD
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line a sheet pan with parchment paper.
Combine flour, sugar, baking soda and salt in the bowl of electric mixer with a paddle attachment. Add butter and mix on low speed until butter is the size of peas and mixed into flour. ( this may take a few minutes)
With a fork, lightly beat buttermilk, egg and zest together in a measuring cup. With mixer on low speed, slowly add the buttermilk mixture to the flour mixture. Combine the currants with 1 tablespoon of flour and mix into the dough. Don't over mix. It will be very wet.
Scrape dough onto a well floured board and knead a few times into a round loaf. Do not over work the dough.Place loaf on prepared sheet pan and lightly cut an X into the top of the bread with a serrated knife. Bake 45 - 55 minutes, or until cake tester comes out clean. Loaf should be nicely browned and sound hollow when tapped.
(In my oven it baked almost an hour)
Cool on a baking rack. Serve warm or at room temperature. It is also lovely toasted with butter and/or jam.
Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart......
Ecclesiastes 9:7
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