a traditional side dish served with greens, chile, beans, and barbecue. It doesn’t hurt to add a little butter and honey to the top, either.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 45 mins |
| Additional Time: | 10 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 10 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 1 loaf |
Ingredients
- 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 9 tablespoons white sugar
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 3 ½ tablespoons butter, softened
- ½ cup milk
- 2 eggs
- ½ cup raisins
- 1 tablespoon white sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Grease an 8 1/2×4 1/2-inch loaf pan.
- Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, 9 tablespoons sugar, and salt in the mixing bowl of a large stand mixer on low speed until combined.
- Mix in butter until thoroughly combined.
- Beat in milk, then eggs, then raisins, incorporating each ingredient well before adding the next.
- Transfer dough to the prepared loaf pan and sprinkle with 1 tablespoon sugar.
- Bake in the preheated oven until bread has risen and the top is golden brown, about 45 minutes. A toothpick or cake tester inserted into the center should come out clean.
- Cool for about 10 minutes before slicing. Best served warm.
- I like to use my standing mixer to mix the ingredients. When the milk and eggs get added in, the mixture becomes heavy to stir by hand. The more you mix together the ingredients the better it is.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 200 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 36 g |
| Cholesterol | 41 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 4 g |
| Saturated Fat | 3 g |
| Sodium | 263 mg |
| Sugars | 15 g |
| Fat | 5 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
This Irish soda bread came out delicious. I don’t have a hand mixer, and everything got clumpy when I mixed it by hand, so I added a 1/2 cup of water. Voila! The dough came out nice and evenly mixed. I also used 3/4 cup raisins instead of 1/2. I’ve never had Irish soda bread before, and I made it for a friend by her request. She loved it.
I didn’t have baking powder, so I skipped that ingredient. Otherwise looks great! Just waiting for it to cool down to slice up & eat!
This Soda Bread rose well, had a very nice crunchy top & browned nicely. The batter is a bit difficult to handle, for it’s stiff & sticky, so it was very hard to transfer from the bowl to the baking pan, even with a strong spatula. This bread is great on the day it’s baked, but by the next day, it is all dried out and has no taste. I even tried freezing half of it on the day it was baked, taking it out of the freezer on the day it would be consumed, but that half was still dried out.