Irish Soda Bread

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Irish Soda Bread

 

Recipe By : Still Life with Menu (1994), Mollie Katzen, page 51

Serving Size : 1 Preparation Time :0:00

Categories : Breads, Quick

 

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method

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2 cups whole wheat flour

2 cups unbleached white flour

3 teaspoons baking powder

2 teaspoons baking soda

2 tablespoons brown sugar

1 teaspoon salt

1/4 cup melted butter

2 eggs

1 1/3 cups yogurt

golden raisins or currants -- (optional)

1 teaspoon caraway seeds -- (optional)

1/4 cup poppy seeds -- (optional)

 

Preparation time: 15 minutes. To prepare, 40 to 50 minutes to

bake. Yield: 1 10-inch round panful.

 

For a superb variation on this quick and easy bread, try substituting oat

and barley flours for the whole wheat and white. Buy them in a natural

food store, or grind rolled oats and pearl barley in a blender or food

processor. Bring this one to the table fresh from the oven.

 

1. Preheat oven to 375F (350 for a glass pan). Butter a 10-inch round pan.

 

2. In a large bowl, sift together flours, baking powder, baking soda,

sugar, and salt.

 

3. Beat together melted butter, eggs, and yogurt.

 

4. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients, and stir in the wet

ingredients. Mix briefly until reasonably well blended. (The batter does

not need to be elegant.)

 

5. Add optional touches (raisins or currants and/or seeds)-or not.

 

6. Spoon dough into the prepared pan, then spread as evenly as

possible. Shape it into a smooth mound, higher in the middle, tapered on

the sides.

 

7. Bake 40 to 50 minutes-until a knife inserted all the way into the

center conies out clean. The top will be quite brown.

 

8. Cool for 10 minutes, then remove from the pan. It may be served hot,

cut into wedges, and wrapped in a clean tea towel in a big bowl. This

bread is delicious warm, and is also very good at room temperature or cold.

 

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