Ingredients
6 cup flour
1 tsp baking soda
3/4 cup sugar
1 lb raisins
3 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 each caraway seeds to taste
1 (usually 1/8 cup
1 qt buttermilk
Directions
Mix all the dry ingredients in a LARGE bowl. Mix in caraway and
rasins. Mix in buttermilk. It helps to use your hands to mix this
because the dough is stickey DO NOT USE AN ELECTRIC MIXER. I did this
a couple of times and the bread came out very flat. Divide batter
into two buttered cake pans. Flour a knife and cut a cross into the
tops of each. Bake at 350 for about an hour. The top should not be
allowed to get to brown.
Source: It was my Grandmother's (Tom Purcia) recipe from county Mayo
in Ireland.
Re-Posted by aiko@epoch.com (Aiko Pinkoski) to the Fatfree Digest
[Volume 16 Issue 11] Mar. 15, 1995.
Individual recipes copyrighted by originator. FATFREE Recipe
collections copyrighted by Michelle Dick 1995. Formatted by Sue Smith,
SueSmith9@aol.com using MMCONV. Archived through kindness of Karen
Mintzias, km@salata.com.
1.80á
Servings: 1 servings
Another Irish Soda Bread Recipe
Categories: Beverages; Bread; Breads; Irish
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