How to Make Irish Soda Bread

Table of Contents Method 1: Preparation before baking 1. Preheat the oven to 190?C (375?F or gas mark 5).2. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.3. Gather ingredients and cooking tools. Soda bread is a traditional Irish bread. As the name suggests, soda bread is bread made with baking soda rather than yeast. This bread is popular in Ireland because the climate there is not suitable for durum wheat production, and it is the flour made from durum wheat that can rise well with yeast. Let me show you how to make soda bread.

Method 1: Preparation before baking

1. Preheat the oven to 190?C (375?F or gas mark 5).

2. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. This will make the final cleanup a little easier. If you don't have parchment paper, cooking non-stick spray will work, and then there's no total guarantee that the bread won't stick to the baking sheet.

3. Gather ingredients and cooking tools. This recipe is quite a time saver - mixing dry flour and wet ingredients is a matter of seconds. Weigh the ingredients properly, beat the eggs and have a mixer ready. The butter will easily combine with the other ingredients as long as you take it out of the fridge beforehand. It doesn't need to be melted, just take it out of the fridge and bring it up to room temperature before preparing the other ingredients.

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7/8 cup (200 g) flour

5/8 cup (150 g) whole wheat flour

2 tablespoons (25 g) sugar

teaspoon (2.5 ml) salt

1 ? teaspoon (7.5 ml) baking powder

1 teaspoon (5 ml) baking soda

1 egg

1 cup (250 ml) buttermilk

1/4 stick (30 g) butter

An extra bit of whole-wheat flour for dusting the spread