Grandmas Irish Soda Bread Sallys Baking Addiction Recipes

SALLY'S IRISH SODA BREAD

Steps:

• Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, and sugar.
• Cut in butter until consistency of cornmeal.
• Add raisins to mix.
• Add vinegar to milk to make sour milk.
• Mix egg into sour milk.
• Pour milk mixture into flour mixture just until flour is wet.
• Do not overmix!
• Grease a cast iron skillet or loaf pan with Pam or butter.
• Pour mixture into pan.
• Take a knife and slash an X down the middle of batter.
• Bake at 350-375 degrees for 40-45 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.

GRANDMA DOLORES' IRISH SODA BREAD

Steps:

• Place lemon juice into the bottom of a glass measuring cup and pour in enough milk to fill to the 1 cup mark-Do not stir!
• Leave milk on your counter for 1 hour- during this time, measure out all of your other ingredients, but wait to set out the butter until the last 15 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 350F and grease a round cake pan or pie plate.
• Sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder, sugar, and salt.
• Using a pastry blender or two knives, cut in the butter chunks until evenly mixed in and mixture looks grainy.
• Stir in dried fruits and caraway seeds.
• Pour the milk mixture into the bowl and stir with a wooden spoon until all ingredients are moistened- don't overmix.
• Dough will still be tacky at this point but will pick up more flour while kneading.
• Sprinkle some flour onto a flat surface and scape dough onto the floured surface; flour your hands and knead the dough gently until it forms a ball- no more than 2 minutes or you will toughen the dough, and it may be less than that depending upon the humidity of the day.
• (As long as it forms a ball, it can still be little sticky- this is different from yeast bread.) Place dough ball into prepared pan and flatten slightly into a thick disk.
• Using a serrated knife, make a deep cross in the surface of the bread.
• Bake until golden brown and until bread sounds hollow on the bottom when rapped, about 35-45 minutes.

GRANDMA'S IRISH SODA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar in large bowl.
• Mix in raisins and caraway seeds (optional). Melt shortening. Beat eggs and combine with milk.
• Mix liquids with dry mixture. Knead on well-floured surface. Shape into a round loaf and place in floured iron skillet.
• Mark an "X" (lightly score) across the top using a sharp knife. Bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes. Cool on wire rack.