This Irish Soda Bread is delicious as a breakfast bread with tea or coffee. Serve warm with butter or favorite jam.
Course Breakfast
Cuisine Irish
Cook Time 45 minutesminutes
Total Time 45 minutesminutes
Servings 1loaf
Author Eat Picks
Ingredients
4cupsflour
4tbsp.sugar
1tsp.baking soda
1 ½tsp.kosher salt
4Tbsp.cold butterdiced
1 ¾cupbuttermilk
1eggslightly beaten
1tsp.orange zest
½cupraisins
½cupcurrants
Instructions
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
In mixing bowl with paddle attachment, combine flour, sugar, baking soda & salt. Add diced butter and mix on low until butter is incorporated.
In a separate bowl, beat egg, buttermilk and orange zest and mix together. Pour into flour mixture. Add raisins and currants. Mix until all come together in a dough ball.
Dump dough onto floured surface and knead 4-5 times until dough comes together and can be shaped into a mound. Place dough onto a tray lined with parchment paper. Cut a shallow ‘X’ on top of dough with a knife.
Bake 45-50 minutes, or until toothpick tests clean. Bread will sound hollow when tapped.