Grandma Dolores Irish Soda Bread Food

GRANDMA MCANDREWS' IRISH SODA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a baking sheet, or line with parchment paper.
• In a large bowl, stir together the flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. In another bowl, whisk together eggs, buttermilk, and corn oil. Make a well in the center of the flour mixture, and pour in the buttermilk mixture. Add the raisins, and stir a few times, just until the ingredients come together into a soft dough. Turn the dough out onto a floured surface, and with floured hands shape dough into a ball. Place the dough on the prepared baking sheet, and cut a large cross in the top with a sharp knife.
• Place the bread on a middle rack of the preheated oven, and bake until golden brown, 30 to 40 minutes.

GRANDPA MCANDREW'S IRISH SODA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a cast iron skillet.
• In a medium bowl, mix together the flour, baking soda and sugar. Toss the raisins with the flour mixture until coated. Make a well in the center and add the egg, buttermilk, and melted margarine. Stir until all of the dry ingredients are absorbed. Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and knead for a few quick turns just to even out the dough. Handle the dough as little as possible. Pat into a flat circle, and place into the prepared pan.
• Bake the bread for 40 to 45 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the edges are golden.

GRANDMA DOLORES' IRISH SODA BREAD

Steps:

• Place lemon juice into the bottom of a glass measuring cup and pour in enough milk to fill to the 1 cup mark-Do not stir!
• Leave milk on your counter for 1 hour- during this time, measure out all of your other ingredients, but wait to set out the butter until the last 15 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 350F and grease a round cake pan or pie plate.
• Sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder, sugar, and salt.
• Using a pastry blender or two knives, cut in the butter chunks until evenly mixed in and mixture looks grainy.
• Stir in dried fruits and caraway seeds.
• Pour the milk mixture into the bowl and stir with a wooden spoon until all ingredients are moistened- don't overmix.
• Dough will still be tacky at this point but will pick up more flour while kneading.
• Sprinkle some flour onto a flat surface and scape dough onto the floured surface; flour your hands and knead the dough gently until it forms a ball- no more than 2 minutes or you will toughen the dough, and it may be less than that depending upon the humidity of the day.
• (As long as it forms a ball, it can still be little sticky- this is different from yeast bread.) Place dough ball into prepared pan and flatten slightly into a thick disk.
• Using a serrated knife, make a deep cross in the surface of the bread.
• Bake until golden brown and until bread sounds hollow on the bottom when rapped, about 35-45 minutes.

GRANDMA'S IRISH SODA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar in large bowl.
• Mix in raisins and caraway seeds (optional). Melt shortening. Beat eggs and combine with milk.
• Mix liquids with dry mixture. Knead on well-floured surface. Shape into a round loaf and place in floured iron skillet.
• Mark an "X" (lightly score) across the top using a sharp knife. Bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes. Cool on wire rack.

IRISH SODA BREAD

Steps:

• in mixing bowl combine flour, sugar, baking powder, soda and salt.
• stir thoroughly.
• cut in butter till crumbly,.
• add buttermilk.
• stir just enough to moisten.
• turn on lightly floured surface.
• knead 8 to 10 times.
• put in greased 9x5x3 inch loaf pan.
• bake at 350 for 1 hour or until browned and inserted toothpick comes out clean.
• this may also be baked in a casserole or on a baking sheet.
• VARIATION;add one cup raisins or currants.

IRISH SODA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425.
• Mix dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl with a fork.
• Pour in milk slowly and stir until dough is sticky.
• Sprinkle counter top with flour. Knead dough lightly on counter top 10 to 15 seconds ONLY. Too much will make the bread heavy.
• Grease bottom and sides of corning ware or bread pan and place dough in middle.
• Slice with and "X" across top of dough.
• Place lid on top or cover with another pan. Foil works in a pinch.
• Bake for 30 minutes.
• Remove lid (or any cover from pan) and bake an additional 15 minutes.
• Remove from oven.
• FOR BEST RESULTS! Place a damp paper towel over the bread when cooling. Some say cover with a tea towel and sprinkle water over the top. I am not into using my tea towels, AKA dish towels, for bread covering. What I do is take two paper towels folded over one another, soak them, wring them out, place the folded towels in a single layer over the bread with a pan holder over that until cooled.
• Slice, enjoy!