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#1 Felix Furbush

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Posted 20 March 2018 - 05:16 PM

This is a traditional soda bread recipe, I use whole wheat flour, APF works well too. Traditional Irish soda bread has four ingredients flour, salt, baking soda and buttermilk. Adding raisins, dates, other fruit or sugar makes it a “tea cake”

Soda bread

4 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 cups of buttermilk(plus up to 1/8 cup extra

Preheat oven to 425f. Incorporate dry ingredients in large mixing bowl, and slowly add buttermilk until ingredients are throughly mixed. If dough is still dry slowly add additional buttermilk till dough is sticky. Remove dough from bowl and place on a flour dusted surface and knead dough into a ball.(dusting with additional flour as needed) place on baking sheet on top of baking parchment flatten ball and cut 1/2” deep cross that covers the whole loaf. Bake for 45-48 minutes. Place on wire baking rack to cool, enjoy!

Note: You can paint a wash of left over buttermilk and water stop the loaf before you bake(I don’t)

I like to bake my bread inside a parchment lined Dutch over(covered) instead of on a baking sheet.

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#2 BrewerGeorge

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Posted 21 March 2018 - 05:14 AM

IME, it's a bit lighter and better risen if you cut that cross about 80% through the thickness.  Leave just enough to hold it together but don't separate the cut - the bake will do that.



#3 Felix Furbush

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Posted 21 March 2018 - 07:53 AM

Ketchup out!

#4 Felix Furbush

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Posted 21 March 2018 - 07:59 AM

Scoring the bread is only to prevent fracture and release steam when the loaf expands. Deep scoring just fvcksup the loaf, and I want bread that I can slice and use... if you want bread that looks like it was once part of a wall of an Irish cottage, go for it. :)

#5 Felix Furbush

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Posted 21 March 2018 - 01:32 PM

Sorry didn’t mean to come off like a dick, but I just shallow score so I have more usable bread surface that can be sliced.

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Posted 21 March 2018 - 01:47 PM

Sorry didn’t mean to come off like a dick, but I just shallow score so I have more usable bread surface that can be sliced.

All good.



#7 Felix Furbush

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Posted 21 March 2018 - 03:31 PM

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Did another one today, this is why I score shallow

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Posted 26 March 2018 - 03:19 AM

That one looks great.

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Posted 28 March 2018 - 12:22 PM

Try sprinkling in a few caraway seeds some time.



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Posted 06 April 2018 - 03:20 AM

There's a place around here that does the tea cake style. Irish soda bread base, but with chopped raisins and sparkling sugar on top. It's sofa king good.

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Posted 06 April 2018 - 12:22 PM

There's a place around here that does the tea cake style. Irish soda bread base, but with chopped raisins and sparkling sugar on top. It's sofa king good.

 

This is the type of Soda Bread I'm used to also....



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Posted 12 April 2018 - 10:07 AM

It's pretty much the only thing I like raisins in.



#13 Felix Furbush

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Posted 12 April 2018 - 03:43 PM

Cinnamon raisin bread from the store?

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Posted 16 February 2019 - 04:08 PM

[quote name="armagh" post="2734202" timestamp="1522264927"]

Try sprinkling in a few caraway seeds some time.[/quote

On top of the bread or in the dough ?

#15 Felix Furbush

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Posted 17 February 2019 - 05:54 PM

This is the type of Soda Bread I'm used to also....


Bramback

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Posted 17 February 2019 - 06:00 PM

Cinnamon raisin bread from the store?


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Posted 17 February 2019 - 07:33 PM

Soda bread with raisins is known as “bramback”

Edited by Oui Pear, 17 February 2019 - 07:33 PM.



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