Sweet Irish Soda Bread

Recipe courtesy Food Network Kitchens

Rated: 3 stars out of 5Rate itRead users' reviews (18)

RECIPE
COMMENTS & REVIEWS(18)

Cook Time:
45 min
Level:
Easy
Yield:
1 loaf

Times:

Prep: 20 min
Inactive Prep: --
Cook: 45 min
Total:: 1 hr 5 min

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Ingredients

2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
2 tablespoons cold unsalted butter
2 tablespoons cold vegetable shortening
1 egg, beaten
1 cup buttermilk
1 cup currants
2 tablespoons toasted caraway seeds
1 tablespoon melted butter
1 tablespoon sanding sugar

Directions

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.

In a large bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt and mix well. Cut the butter and shortening into small pieces and add to the flour mixture. Using your fingers, work the cold butter and shortening into the flour mixture until it resembles coarse crumbs. Add the egg, the buttermilk, the currants and the caraway seeds and mix into the flour mixture until it is incorporated. Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and knead gently until the dough forms a smooth ball. Place the dough into a lightly greased loaf pan. Score the top of the loaf with a very sharp knife. Brush the top of the loaf with melted butter. Sprinkle with sanding sugar. Place the loaf in the oven and bake for 40 to 45 minutes or until golden brown.

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Izabela Rock Hill, SC 03-17-2010
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My Family's Favorite
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I have been making this bread for years and everyone loves it. I did make a few adjustments- skip the caraway seeds and add... raisins instead of currants. It has so much more flavor that regular soda bread!!Read more
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Jennifer Elgin, IL 03-16-2010
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Sweet Irish GLOP!
Rated: 1 stars out of 5

Followed the recipe...what a gloppy mess. Recipe also leaves out when to add the first tablespoon of sugar. Waste of time... and money. Read more
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Phoebe Somers, MT 03-15-2010
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It certainly is NOT irish soda bread! Cake perhaps.
Rated: 1 stars out of 5

My grandmother was an Irish immigrant. I had many a loaf of her bread and never saw a currant, raisin or caraway seed. I... only had Irish soda cake when I and my cousins were younguns, soda cake has sugar in it. Once we started school we received the same soda bread as the adults. So Food Network, someone has been pulling your leg!Read more
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Diana Sherman oaks, CA 03-15-2010
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Good! But it's not soda bread!
Rated: 3 stars out of 5

It's a tea cake. Soda bread does not contain fruit or sweetening. But it makes a nice tea cake.
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therese ny , NY 02-28-2010
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Potential disaster turned out alright
Rated: 3 stars out of 5

Thank goodness I had watched Ms Contessa make this on TV. Following the recipe precisely (except that I made my own... buttermilk, adding 1tbsp of vinegar to the cup of milk), I got a gooey mass. I ended up adding one additional cup of flour. The texture became kneadable, but rather than kneading, I just turned the mixture straight onto the baking dish. Top browned a bit more than I would like, but, at least it's not too floury! Read more
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Amanda Byron Center, MI 04-29-2008
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it's good
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

As far as soda breads go this is the best my mother said she ever had(she has been to ireland so she has eaten a lot of soda... bread).Read more