Soda Bread?

[Ron Lambert]

I read an article in some magazine and they mentions a soda bread. I've
never heard of it. Can someone fill me a a little about it. It would
be nice for a soda bread recipe.

Thanks for the help

[Bob Slover]

PMTKN wrote:
>
> >I read an article in some magazine and they mention a soda bread. I've
> >never heard of it.
>
> ```````````````````````````````````````````````````
> Soda Bread is just another name for Irish Bread. Also called Irish Soda Bread.

Here is a recipe from Traditional Irish Recipes by John Murphy from
Kilkenny Press. I haven't actully tried this recipe but it sounds
interesting.

Soda Bread

1 lb. plain flour
3/4 pt. buttermilk
1 tsp. bicarbonate of soda
1 tsp. salt

Mix the dry ingredients together, making sure there are no lumps in the
soda. Add the buttermilk and mix well with a wooden spoon. knead lightly
on a floured board. Place on a baking sheet and mark the top with a
cross. Bake at the top of a hot oven for three-quarters of an hour,
until the bottom of the loaf sounds hollow when rapped with the knuckle.

Best of Luck,
BobSlo

[PMTKN]

[C.L. Gifford]

Here are 3 of mine to enjoy.

Charlie (Liam)

LIAM'S SODA BREAD

2 cups unsifted all-purpose flour
2 tbs. sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
3 tbs. butter, softened
1 cup buttermilk
1 tbs. butter, melted

Preheat oven to 375 F. Lightly grease a small baking sheet.
In a large bowl, sift flour, sugar, baking powder, soda and
salt. Cut in the softened butter with pastry blender or fork
until mixture looks like fine crumbs. Add buttermilk. Mix with
a fork ONLY until dry ingredients are moistened. Turn out on a
lightly floured pastry cloth or board and knead gently until
smooth - about 1 minute. Shape into a ball. Place on the
prepared baking sheet. Flatten into a 7 inch circle. Dough will
be about 1.5 inches thick. Press a large floured knife into the
loaf (almost cutting through to the bottom) making quarters.
Bake 30 to 40 minutes, or until the top is golden and the loaf
sounds hollow when tapped. Remove to wire rack to cool. Brush
top with melted butter. Can be dusted with flour at this point
if you wish (authentic, but not to everyone's taste).

A variation!

LIAM'S CARAWAY-RASIN SODA BREAD

Procede as with "Liam's Soda Bread" but add 1/2 cup rasins
and 1 tbs. caraway seeds to the dry ingredients.

BROWN OATMEAL SODA BREAD

2.25 to 2.5 cups flour
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. salt
2 cups whole wheat flour
1 cup old-fashioned rolled oats, plus additional for
sprinkling the bread
2 cups buttermilk
1 lg. egg, beaten lightly

Preheat oven to 350 F.

Sift together 2.25 cups of the flour, soda, baking powder
and salt into a large bowl. Stir in the wheat flour and 1
cup of the oats. Add the buttermilk and the egg and stir the
mixture until it forms a dough. Turn the dough out onto a floured
surface and knead it, kneading in as much of the remaining flour
as necessary, until it forms a magageable but sticky dough. Halve
the dough, form the halves into round loaves and put them on a
greased baking sheet. Sprinkle the loaves with the additional
oats, dust them with flour, and bake them in the middle of oven
for 30 to 35 minutes, or until they are browned lightly. Let the
loaves cool on a rack. Makes 2 loaves.

[A.Ferszt]

Bob Slover wrote:
>
> PMTKN wrote:
> >
> > >I read an article in some magazine and they mention a soda bread. I've
> > >never heard of it.
> >

> > ```````````````````````````````````````````````````
> > Soda Bread is just another name for Irish Bread. Also called Irish Soda Bread.
>

> Here is a recipe from Traditional Irish Recipes by John Murphy from
> Kilkenny Press. I haven't actully tried this recipe but it sounds
> interesting.
>
> Soda Bread
>
> 1 lb. plain flour
> 3/4 pt. buttermilk
> 1 tsp. bicarbonate of soda
> 1 tsp. salt
>
> Mix the dry ingredients together, making sure there are no lumps in the
> soda. Add the buttermilk and mix well with a wooden spoon. knead lightly
> on a floured board. Place on a baking sheet and mark the top with a
> cross. Bake at the top of a hot oven for three-quarters of an hour,
> until the bottom of the loaf sounds hollow when rapped with the knuckle.
>
> Best of Luck,
> BobSlo

That is very much the traditional way. It can be cooked in a heavy
frying pan as well on top of the stove. Also comes in a brown
version...about half white and half wholewheat flour.

[C.L. Gifford]

This would be a "farl".

Charlie (Liam)

[jean hemphill]

Brought this cookbook back from Ireland.
Real Irish Cookery by Mary Caherty

SODA BREAD

12 oz. plain flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. bread soda (bicarb.)
1/2 tsp. cream of tartar
1/2 pt. buttermilk
mix dry ingredients together and sieve twice-to incorporate plenty of
air. Make a well in the centre of the flour and add enough buttermik to
get an easy -to-handle, soft but not wet dough.Knead very lightly, form
into a round and mark with a cross. Bake in a hot oven 450 F. for 20
min. Reduce to 400 F. for a further 20 min.
The mark of the cross on the cake of bread is said to have been the Sign
of the Cross and was to bring the blessing of Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit onto the bread so that none would be wasted.
This bread was made when butter was scarce, as it is complete in itself.

jean

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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor
the fault-finding of men
Thomas a Kempis