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Irish Soda Bread is a quick bread that is prepared without yeast. Instead it uses Baking Soda (sodium bicarbonate) as the leavening agent along with flour, salt and buttermilk.
Ingredients:
All Purpose Flour (Maida) – 450gms
Buttermilk – 400ml
Salt – 1 tsp
Baking Soda – 1 tsp
Fat for greasing the cake tin
Method:
- Sift together salt, baking soda and all purpose flour twice together.
- Preheat the oven to 220 degrees C.
- Grease an 8″ round cake tin.
- Take the sifted flour in a mixing bowl.
- Make a well in centre of the flour and pour the buttermilk into the well.
- Mix well using your hands. The dough should be soft but not sticky.
- Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and mix very gently.
- Shape the dough into an 8″ round.
- Place it on a greased cake tin and make a cross mark on the top of the dough.
- Bake at 220 degrees C for nearly 30 minutes.To test if the bread is cooked, tap the bottom of the tin and it should sound hollow.
- Remove the the tin from the oven and let it cool down briefly.
- Cut and serve warm or toasted.
- Since this bread dries out quickly, it is good only for 2 – 3 days.
