White irish soda bread recipe?

Question

I need to make white irish soda bread (with raisins!) for an irish dancing competition. Could someone give me their favorite recipe?? I can't find any, and I've never had it before, so I have no idea what it's supposed to taste like!

Answer 1

Irresistible Irish Soda Bread
There is a picture if you click the link, you can easily add raisins as seen in the photo


INGREDIENTS
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/3 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 egg, lightly beaten
2 cups buttermilk
1/4 cup butter, melted
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan.
Combine flour, baking powder, sugar, salt and baking soda. Blend egg and buttermilk together, and add all at once to the flour mixture. Mix just until moistened. Stir in butter. Pour into prepared pan.
Bake for 65 to 70 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the bread comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack. Wrap in foil for several hours, or overnight, for best flavor.

Answer 2

Two White Soda Loaves


his is a basic soda bread, following the Irish mode. I scaled up the recipe from one of Beard's, and changed it some. It is quite crusty, and really all-purpose. This soda bread takes around a third the time and a half the effort of a comparable yeast bread. Since no yeast bread is much like it, I don't know what would be comparable. People who have never tried a soda bread will note many differences, like the order you add things (flour and then the liquid...).


2 loaves
8 cups
(800 g) white flour (unbleached)

3-4 cups
(8-10 dl) buttermilk, at room temperature

1 tsp
(5 ml) salt

2 tsp
(10 ml) baking powder

1.5 tsp
(7.5 ml) baking soda

1 cup
(150 g) currants (optional)

1 tsp
(5 ml) butter or oil



Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.

Preheat the oven to 350F or 175C

Stir in buttermilk, a cup at a time. You should make a fairly soft dough that will nonetheless hold its shape. Thus, you may need the full amount of buttermilk.

Turn the dough out onto a well-floured board (this is a stock phrase; do it anyway). Knead until it is smooth and soft, probably about 7 minutes. You should have to keep adding a little flour to the board for the first few minutes to keep the dough from sticking.

Are you using currants? Knead them in, then. Or don't, accordingly.

Tear the dough in half. Form each half into a ball. With a knife, slash a cross in the top.

Place the balls, cross up, well apart, on a greased baking sheet.

Put this sheet, bread side up, into the oven.

Bake for 35 or 40 minutes. The loaves are done when they sound hollow at a knocking hand. They should also get to be a nice light brown color. The cross will split open, and the resultant points will get hard and dark brown. Soda bread has a tendency to crack in the oven. This is no big deal.
NOTES
You can substitute, per James Beard's recommendation, about 4 cups of whole-wheat flour for half the white. Since this will be heavier, use about 40% more baking powder. The bread made this way is markedly different.

Answer 3

have a go at this one - works well for me!!

2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
6 tablespoons shortening
2/3 cup raisins, brown or golden or mixed
2 teaspoons caraway
1 cup buttermilk

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
In a large bowl sift together the flour, baking soda, salt, nutmeg, and sugar. Using a pastry blender or fingertips, work the shortening into the flour until the consistency is the same as that of small peas. Stir in the raisins and caraway and mix to distribute evenly. Gradually stir in the buttermilk, 1/4 cup at a time, using only enough to allow the dough to come together. Knead the dough for 1 - 2 minutes. Shape the dough into a round loaf and place on a greased baking sheet. Cut an X on the top and over the sides of the loaf. Bake for 45 minutes or until the bread sounds hollow when tapped. Cool on a rack

Answer 4

AMAZINGLY EASY IRISH SODA BREAD

INGREDIENTS
4 cups all-purpose flour
4 tablespoons white sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup margarine, softened
1 cup buttermilk
1 egg
1/4 cup butter, melted
1/4 cup buttermilk


DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Lightly grease a large baking sheet.
In a large bowl, mix together flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, salt and margarine. Stir in 1 cup of buttermilk and egg. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead slightly. Form dough into a round and place on prepared baking sheet. In a small bowl, combine melted butter with 1/4 cup buttermilk; brush loaf with this mixture. Use a sharp knife to cut an 'X' into the top of the loaf.
Bake in preheated oven for 45 to 50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the loaf comes out clean, about 30 to 50 minutes. You may continue to brush the loaf with the butter mixture while it bakes

Answer 5

here are some --- http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=White+irish+soda+bread+recipe%3F&btnG=Google+Search