Try this Irish Soda Bread Recipe for Easy Homemade Bread

Shelly Lampman's Irish Soda Bread Recipe

Here's a fun one to bring out the Irish in you... I've made this for several potlucks and had great reviews.

4 C plain flour

1 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp sugar

2 cups buttermilk

Put the dry ingredients in a large bowl. Scoop up handfuls and allow to drop back into the bowl to aerate. Add enough buttermilk to make a soft dough.

Now work quickly as the buttermilk and soda are already reacting. Knead the dough lightly - too much handling will toughen it, but too little means it won't rise properly. Form a round loaf about as thick as your fist. Place it on a lightly floured baking sheet and cut a cross in the top with a floured knife. Put at once to bake near the top of a pre-heated oven at 450 degrees for 30 - 45 minutes. When baked, the loaf will sound hollow when rapped on the bottom with your knuckles. Wrap immediately in a clean tea-towel to stop the crust hardening too much.

Wheaten bread or brown soda is made in exactly the same way but with wholewheat flour replacing all or some of the white flour - this requires a little less buttermilk.

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