Irish Soda Bread
The Irish in the Old Country make beautiful soda bread. Given a good recipe, why shouldn't the Irish-Americans make it too?This is another recipe my mother clipped from a newspaper or magazine many years ago.
Ingredients
- 4 cups sifted flour 2 tablespoons sugar
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 cup corn oil or butter
- 1 cup seedless raisins
- 1 tablespoon caraway seeds
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 egg
- Corn oil
Instructions
- Grease 8×1-1/2 inch layer cake pan.
- Sift together first 5 items in large bowl. Add corn oil and blend until fine crumbs form, Stir in raisins and caraway seeds. Mix buttermilk and egg together.
- Gradually add to flour mixture, stirring until soft dough forms. Turn out onto floured board; knead lightly until smooth. Shape into ball.
- Place in prepared pan. Flatten slightly and cut a cross on top of loaf. Brush with corn oil. Bake in 350-degree oven 50 minutes or until brown.