Irish Soda Bread
Servings 8 servings
Calories
Ingredients
- 3 cups Signature SELECT® all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- 1 ½ teaspoons Signature SELECT® baking soda
- 3 tablespoons Signature SELECT® granulated white sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon Signature SELECT® table salt
- 1 tablespoon O Organics® caraway seeds optional
- 1 stick 4 oz. Open Nature® European style butter, cold, cut up into 1/2-inch cubes
- 1 1/4 cups Lucerne® buttermilk
- 1/2 cup currants or Signature SELECT® dark seedless raisins
- 1 large Lucerne® egg for brushing top
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350°. Line the bottom of a baking sheet or cast-iron skillet with parchment and grease with non-stick cooking spray or butter.
- Combine baking powder, baking soda, flour, sugar, salt, and caraway seeds in a large mixing bowl.
- Add butter cubes and cut into the dry ingredients with a pastry cutter or with your fingers until they are the size of small peas. Stir in raisins and buttermilk; mix lightly with a wooden spoon until a dough just forms.
- Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead slightly and form into one 7” diameter round, using more dough as needed since the dough is sticky.
- Place on prepared baking sheet. In a small bowl, whisk the egg until combined; brush the top with egg. Use a sharp knife to cut an 'X' into the top of the loaf.
- Place in oven and bake about 35 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean.
- Cool on a wire rack, cut, and serve with Open Nature® European style butter and Signature SELECT® preserves of your choice.