Happy
St. Patrick's Day
Irish Soda Bread
What you need:
Soda bread only takes less than five minutes to make and only about
20 or 30 minutes to bake. This is a splendid treat and it is both quick
and easy and a great improvement over most retail packaged breads.
3 cups of unbleached all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon of sea salt (any salt will do, but sea salt is excellent)
1 teaspoon of fresh baking soda
1 1/2 cups of buttermilk
What to do:
Preheat the oven to 450 F.
Sift the dry ingredients into a bowl and make a well in the center.
Make a well in the flour in the center of the bowl (a well to receive
the milk)
Pour in most of the milk at once.
Quickly mix the ingredients, pulling in the flour from the edges of
the bowl, adding more milk if necessary.
The dough should be soft but not sticky to handle.
When the flour mixture comes together, turn it out onto a floured board
or other work surface and knead lightly for a second, just enough to give
it good form but be quick.
Quickly Shape the dough into a round patty shape about an inch or so
thick and do it with as little handling as possible.
Bake on a cookie sheet in the preheated oven for 20 minutes at
450 F, then turn the temperature down to 400 F. and continue baking for
15 minutes or until cooked.
You will soon learn by aroma whether the bread is cooked or not. You
can also stick a toothpick in the center of the loaf and if it comes out
clean your loaf is finished. Alternately you can tap the bottom of the
loaf and, if it is finished, it will give out a hollow sound when
tapped.
 
You can also add 2 to 3 tablespoons of freshly chopped herbs
of your choice. This bread is easy to personalize with your own special
touch such as added caramelized onions (the Chef likes them sautéed
in bacon grease), green or black olives chopped or whole, sun dried tomatoes,
etc. If you like an herb, try adding it.
The Chef often prepares this for the King with a couple of strips of
crisp dry bacon crumbled into the flour before mixing.
Notes:
This recipe can be shaped into one loaf or it can be shaped into two
smaller loaves or, for example, it can be shaped into several scones. It
is a very versatile recipe.
If you are going to have an authentic loaf of Irish soda bread, before
you bake the bread you should cut a fairy door into the loaf. A fairy door
can be made in the form of a cross on the loaf which allows the fairies
a way out! Cut lightly across the surface of the loaf and down the sides
of the loaf to be sure all fairies can exit with ease. Many Irish cooks
swear that success with bread depends on happy fairies (and we always just
thought that fresh ingredients was the main aid to a great loaf of bread).
:-)
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