Irish Sopda Bread

012  Irish Soda Bread

This truly not a traditional Irish soda Bread recipe, with all the ingredients it’s more like a stollen, but it’s still delicious.

Ingredients for Irish soda Bread

  1. 2 cups flour
  2. 1/4 cup sugar
  3. 1 egg
  4. 2 tsp baking powder
  5. 1/2 tsp baking soda
  6. 1/2 pint sour cream
  7. 4 oz milk
  8. 2/3 cup raisins
  9. 1 tbsp caraway seeds

special items needed for Irish Soda Bread:

  1. Oven proof bowl 6 qt or larger or  large cake pan
  2. 1 tbs shortening

grease oven proof bowl and set aside. Preheat oven to 350°.

In a large mixing bowl combine all the ingredients and pour into greased oven proof bowl.  Bake 45 – 50 minutes.  Take out of the oven and let cool slightly then invert onto a wire rack and let cool completely.
Anchor Hocking 4-Piece Mixing Bowl Set, Clear

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Irish Soda Bread Recipes

 

Irish Soda Bread
Irish Soda Bread

Irish Soda Bread:

Okay before we begin I will admit this not a “traditional” true Irish Soda Bread.  The real deal is just flour, baking soda, salt and buttermilk.  My wife however truly likes the raisins or currants in the bread and so this recipe has them.  To tell when it is cooked properly the bottom when tapped will sound hollow.

Ingredients

  1. 4 cups of flour
  2. 1 tsp baking soda
  3. 1 tsp salt
  4. 2 cups buttermilk
  5. 1 cup raisins or currants

Irish Soda Bread Directions:

Preheat oven to 425°

Sift the dry ingredients into a bowl, add the raisins and stir to spread the raisins through the flour.  Add the buttermilk and stir until the flour just combines ( depending on a number of conditions you may need to add a little more buttermilk, if the dough doesn’t come together, add  the buttermilk a tablespoon at a time) .  Turn dough out onto a very lightly floured surface and lightly knead no more than 15 times ( the more you work the dough the less it will rise ).  Form into a circle about 9 inches in diameter and about 2 inches high.  Place into a round cake pan and cover with another cake pan and bake for about 25 minutes.  Take cake pan lid off and bake for another 20 minutes.  Remove from the oven and let stand in pan for about 10 minutes then remove to wire rack to cool completely.

Serve sliced with softened butter and enjoy your Irish Soda Bread.

Here are few items to help with this recipe:
OvenStuff Non-Stick 9 Inch Round Cake Pan Two Piece Set
Wusthof Classic 8-Inch Bread Knife
Anchor Hocking Irish Coffee Mug, Set of 12

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Best Scottish Scones

 

Scottish Scones
Scottish Scones

Scottish Scones

There is I think nothing as satisfying as  hot scones on a cold morning, or for that matter on any morning.  Warm, buttered with a dollop of jam and these flaky tasty morsel brighten any morning.  They are as good cooled so you don’t have to worry about not finishing the plate at one sitting.

Warm Scone with butter and jam
Warm Scone with butter and jam

This wonderful creation like Scottish Shortbread most likely originated out of the Bannock a round cake baked on a griddle and made with unleavened oats and cut into segments.  Once baking powder became available and wheat flour more accessible  the present day scone recipe evolved.

This recipe can be embellished in any number of ways.  You can add fruit, raisins or currants, for a dessert add chocolate chips.  Make them savory scones by adding fine herbs, spicy with pumpkin, or with cheese, or bacon the ideas are endless.

In some areas of the U.S. they try to pass off a fried dough as a scone, I was once sorely disappointed in a restaurant at a truck stop that placed one in front of me; immediately drying up, my already watering with expectation, mouth.  Such an affront would surely get any true Scotsman’s kilt in a knot.  Too bad they are a national chain and are spreading this blasphemy all over the country.

If you are in the highlands don’t be asking for a scone ( skone -s cone) they’ll not know what yer askin, rather ask for a scone (skon -s-con).

Special tools for making Scones:

  1. ½ sheet pan greased
  2. pastry cutter
  3. pastry scrapper

Scottish Scones Ingredients:

  1. ¾ cup of milk (you can substitute buttermilk for a rich alternative)
  2. 1 egg beaten
  3. 2 cups flour – sifted
  4. 2 tbs sugar
  5. 1 tbs baking powder
  6. ½ tsp salt
  7. 1/3 cup of butter = 5 1/3 tbs.cut to small cubes

Baking directions for Scottish Scones:

Set oven to 425º with rack in the center.  Sift all the dry ingredients into a bowl add the butter and using the pastry cutter cut in the butter until you have a mixture with the consistency of corn meal.  

You can also come into the 21st century and use a food processor for these first steps.  Simply add the dry ingredients to the bowl of the processor and add the butter and with the blade attachment pulse until you have the desired consistency, then place into a bowl and continue.

Add the egg and milk and stir only until no flour shows.

add egg and milk
add egg and milk
stir until no flour shows
stir until no flour shows

If the mixture is dry or stiff add a little more milk you should have a slightly gooey and moist dough.  Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and knead very gently 15 times (baking powder dough doesn’t like to be worked too much).  Once kneaded cut dough in half and shape each half into  a ball.  Press the ball down to form a round and cut into 8 pieces.

cut in half
cut in half
form into rounds and cut into 8 pieces
form into rounds and cut into 8 pieces

Place the pieces onto a greased cookie sheet spacing them as they will rise while baking.

space on sheet pan
space on sheet pan

Bake for 12 minutes or until lightly golden brown.  Serve warm with softened butter and jam.

serve warm with softened butter and jam
serve warm with softened butter and jam

here are few items you might need to make this scone recipe:
OXO Good Grips Multi-Purpose Pastry Scraper/Chopper
OXO Good Grips Dough Blender with Blades
Nordic Ware Bakers Half Sheet, 13 by 18 by 1 Inch
Silpat Non-Stick Baking Mat, 11 5/8 x 16 1/2-inches, Half Sheet Size

 

 

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You don’t have to be Scottish to love these delicious treats, especially with butter and jam – I give them 5 paws

 

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Best Scottish Scones

Best Scottish Scones

Ingredients

  1. ¾ cup of milk (you can substitute buttermilk for a rich alternative)
  2. 1 egg beaten
  3. 2 cups flour - sifted
  4. 2 tbs sugar
  5. 1 tbs baking powder
  6. ½ tsp salt
  7. 1/3 cup of butter = 5 1/3 tbs.cut to small cubes

Instructions

  1. Set oven to 425º with rack in the center.  Sift all the dry ingredients into a bowl add the butter and using the pastry cutter cut in the butter until you have a mixture with the consistency of corn meal.  
  2. You can also come into the 21st century and use a food processor for these first steps.  Simply add the dry ingredients to the bowl of the processor and add the butter and with the blade attachment pulse until you have the desired consistency, then place into a bowl and continue.
  3. Add the egg and milk and stir only until no flour shows.
  4. If the mixture is dry or stiff add a little more milk you should have a slightly gooey and moist dough.  Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and knead very gently 15 times (baking powder dough doesn't like to be worked too much).  Once kneaded cut dough in half and shape each half into  a ball.  Press the ball down to form a round and cut into 8 pieces.
  5. Place the pieces onto a greased cookie sheet spacing them as they will rise while baking.
  6. Bake for 12 minutes or until lightly golden brown.  Serve warm with softened butter and jam.
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