How To Make Fruit Soda Bread

Fruit Soda Bread and Soda Bread are traditional Northern Irish bread recipes made without yeast.

Many families in Ireland will have their own fruit soda bread recipe that has been handed down to them through the generations.

Easy to make, this recipe is Wee BunsCookery School’s mother’s recipe and one that she still makes regularly.

Simply serve with some delicious Northern Irish butter and enjoy!

Soda Bread Ingredients

Preheat the oven to 220C or 200C Fan.

Lightly flour a baking tray.

12 oz plain flour

3 oz raisins

1 tbsp caster sugar

1 tsp bicarbonate of soda (too much turns bread yellow)

½ tsp cream of tartar (keeps the bread white – is optional)

Pinch of salt

Approximately ¼ – ¾ pint buttermilk

How To Make Fruit Soda Bread

1. Sieve the flour, baking soda and cream of tartar into a large bowl.
2. Add the raisins, salt and sugar and aerate well with hands.
3. Make a well in the centre and add half of the buttermilk at first, bring together with your hand and keep adding enough buttermilk to make a soft dough (almost wet).
4. Turn out onto a well-floured surface.
5. Bring it together very lightly into a ball and place on a flour-dusted baking tray, make a cross with a sharp knife.  And then a little dent in each corner to let the fairies out!
6. Bake for approximately 25mins. In a conventional oven at 220C for 10 minutes then reduce temp to 200C.
7. You can turn the loaf upside down for the last 5 minutes.
8. The top should be golden, and the base should sound hollow when tapped.
9. Cool on a rack (wrapped in a clean tea towel if you prefer not to have a hard crust).

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