Previously for Saint Patrick's day,
I made a spice-rubbed, braised, and glazed
corned beef brisket
and
colcannon.
Our Saint Patrick's day celebration continues with Irish Soda bread,
so named because it uses baking soda as the leavening ingredient.
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Legend has it that the customary X-slash
cut into the top before baking serves to ward off evil spirits.
Irish Raisin Soda Bread
4 cups flour
3 TB sugar
3 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
3/4 tsp baking soda
6 TB cold unsalted butter, diced
1 cup raisins
1 TB caraway seeds
2 eggs, beaten
1 1/2 cups buttermilk
Mix first five ingredients in a bowl.
Cut in the butter with a pastry blender
until you have coarse to pea-sized crumbs.
Stir in raisins and caraways seeds.
Set aside 1 TB beaten egg for a wash.
In a small bowl, combine remaining eggs and buttermilk.
Stir into flour mixture and mix until flour
is just moistened.
It will be a sticky dough.
Turn onto a lightly floured board and knead a bit.
If the dough's too sticky, lightly dust it with flour.
Form into a ball.
Place in a buttered 9-inch round baking pan.
Cut a 4-inch long, 1/4-inch deep cross in the center.
Brush the top with the reserved tablespoon of egg.
Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour 15-20 minutes.
Cool about 15 minutes in pan,
then remove to wire rack to cool completely.
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Whisk together dry ingredients:
flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, baking soda.
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First, one must properly measure dry ingredients.
Do not use the glass Pyrex measuring cups for dry ingredients.
They're used for liquid measurements.
When measuring flour, scoop and sweep.
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Scoop and sweep.
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Ever noticed the opening to a baking powder can
and wonder why isn't it open all the way around
and what's that metal lip for?
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It has a built in scoop and sweep.
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Add in cold unsalted diced butter.
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Toss to coat.
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Work in the butter with a pastry blender.
You don't want a homogeneous mixture.
You want different sized crumbs from coarse meal to pea.
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Next, mix in the raisins and caraway seeds.
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In a small bowl, mix remaining eggs and buttermilk.
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Add the liquid mixture to the flour mixture.
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Mix it in.
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Keep working the dough ...
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... until you can pull it into a shaggy ball.
It's a sticky dough,
so you may need to lightly dust it with flour.
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Keep kneading until you can ...
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... form it into a ball.
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Place in buttered 9-inch round cake pan
and cut a cross in the top.
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Brush with the reserved egg
and bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour 15-20 minutes.
I tented it with foil after about 50 minutes.
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Cool about 15 minutes in the pan,
then cool completely on a wire rack.
By the way, that's Moreover Corned Beef Hash in the background.
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Ta daa!
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Toast a slice,
smear some butter on it,
and drizzle on some sourwood honey.
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Treat yourself to some Irish Raisin Soda Bread.
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The sweet raisins are a nice contrast with the caraway seeds.
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Erin go bragh!
1 comment:
Looks yummy.
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