Sweet Irish Soda Bread

Name: Sweet Irish Soda Bread
Yield: Yield: 4 loaves, 1 pound (455 g) each
Cuisine: Irish
Ingredients: 5 ounces (140 g) dried currants or raisins; ½ cup (120 ml) buttermilk; Bread flour; 1¼ cups (300 ml) whole milk (see Note); 4 ounces (115 g) firm unsalted butter; 1½ ounces (40 g) baking powder; 1 teaspoon (5 g) salt; 4 ounces (115 g) granulated sugar; 1 pound 10 ounces (740 g) cake flour; 5 ounces (140 g) wheat or oat bran; 1 tablespoon (7 g) caraway seeds

Preparation info

Yield:
4
loaves, 1 pound each

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Professional Pastry Chef

By Bo Friberg

Published 1989

About

Even though this recipe contains no baking soda per se, it does contain a substantial amount of baking powder, and baking powder is one-third baking soda. So this is, technically, still a soda bread.

Ingredients

1 pound 10 ounces (740 g) cake flour
5 oun

Europe
Ireland
Bread
Vegetarian

Method

Thoroughly combine the cake flour, wheat or oat bran, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
Add the butter in small chunks and rub between your fingers until the butter is reduced to small pieces (about the size of raisins) and is evenly incorporated. Mix in the currants or raisins and the caraway seeds.
Combine the milk and buttermilk and add to the mixtur