American Irish Soda Bread
This bread is delicious right out of the oven. Any leftovers are perfect with coffee the next morning. Adapted from King Arthur Baking.
Ingredients
Bread
- 3 cups all purpose flour
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 cup raisins or currants
- 1 tbsp caraway seeds, optional
- 1 large egg
- 1 3/4 cups buttermilk
- 4 tbsp butter, melted
Topping
- 1 tbsp milk
- 4 tbsp sugar
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375°F. Lightly grease a 9 x 5" loaf pan.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, sugar, raisins or currants, and caraway seeds.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together the egg and buttermilk.
- Quickly and gently stir the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients.
- Stir in the melted butter.
- Spoon the batter into the prepared pan. Draw your finger around the edge of the pan to create a moat. Drizzle the bread with 1 tablespoon of milk - the moat will prevent the milk from running down the sides of the loaf pan. Sprinkle with sugar.
- Bake the bread for 50 minutes - 1 hour, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Remove the bread from the oven, loosen its edges, and after 5 minutes, turn it out onto a rack to cool.