Super simple, super moist Irish soda bread! Delicious.
Course
Bread
Cuisine
Irish
Prep Time10minutes
Cook Time40minutes
Total Time50minutes
Servings2loaves
AuthorErin Brighton
Ingredients
8tablespoons(1 stick) butter, at room temperature
4cupflour(I used Jules' GF flour)
1cupsugar, plus 1 tablespoon for sprinkling
4teaspoonsbaking powder
3/4teaspoonbaking soda
pinch of salt
1egg
1 1/2cupsbuttermilk
1cupraisins
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350. Butter and flour two 9×5 loaf pans or 1 8x8 pan.
In a large bowl, cream the butter with a pastry blender or fork. Add the flour, 1 cup of sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Mix well with the blender or fork.
In a separate bowl, stir together egg and buttermilk.
Make a well in the flour-butter mixture. Pour in the egg mixture. Mix gently but thoroughly. Stir in raisins. (My dad mentioned that this was so hard to stir that he used the dough hook on the stand mixer for this part.)
Transfer the dough to the pans, dividing it evenly. Sprinkle the tops with the remaining 1 tablespoon of sugar.
Bake for 40 minutes or until the tops are golden and a skewer inserted into the center of the loaves comes out clean.
Cool the loaves in the pans on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Turn out of the pans and leave to cool completely.