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Easy Irish Soda Bread with Raisins

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You will love this quick and easy Irish Soda Bread with Raisins recipe made with flour, baking soda, salt, sugar, egg, butter, buttermilk, and raisins for St. Patrick's Day or any time of year!

You will love this quick and easy Irish Soda Bread with Raisins recipe made with flour, baking soda, salt, sugar, egg, butter, buttermilk, and raisins for St. Patrick’s Day or any time of year!

You will love this quick and easy Irish Soda Bread with Raisins recipe made with flour, baking soda, salt, sugar, egg, butter, buttermilk, and raisins for St. Patrick's Day or any time of year!

St. Patrick’s Day is one of my favorite holidays. (As if you couldn’t tell from all the St. Patrick’s Day recipes that I have been posting!)

Even though my family is mostly Italian, we are a bit Irish as well. Each year we have the tradition of my mother cooking a big Irish dinner of corned beef and cabbage. I look forward to this dinner and spending time with my family every year.

But to be completely honest, my favorite part of the meal for me has always been the Irish soda bread — made with raisins, of course!

Like with Italian bread, I love to enjoy my Irish soda bread just out of the oven. When the bread is nice and warm the butter melts and it is just heavenly! The bread is excellent toasted with butter as well, which is perfect for breakfast the next morning.

You will love this quick and easy Irish Soda Bread with Raisins recipe made with flour, baking soda, salt, sugar, egg, butter, buttermilk, and raisins for St. Patrick's Day or any time of year!

While we made our irish soda bread with raisins on a baking sheet, you could use a cast iron skillet instead. Your soda bread may need a few extra minutes to make in the cast iron skillet, but it will come out wonderful as well.

If you are a fan of irish soda bread with raisins and caraway seeds, those can easily be added to the recipe too. Enjoy!

After dinner, why not try one of these delicious Irish desserts?

You will love this quick and easy Irish Soda Bread with Raisins recipe made with flour, baking soda, salt, sugar, egg, butter, buttermilk, and raisins for St. Patrick's Day or any time of year!

Irish Soda Bread with Raisins

Yield: 1 loaf
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 40 minutes
Total Time: 50 minutes

You will love this quick and easy Irish Soda Bread with Raisins recipe made with flour, baking soda, salt, sugar, egg, butter, buttermilk, and raisins for St. Patrick's Day or any time of year!

Ingredients

  • 4 cups flour
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp baking salt
  • 4 tbsp butter, chilled and cubed
  • 1 cup raisins
  • 1 egg
  • 1 3/4 cups buttermilk

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Prepare baking sheet by greasing with butter / non-stick spray or lining with parchment paper.
  2. In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, salt and baking soda. 
  3. Add butter, working it into the flour mixture with your fingers until it resembles a coarse meal.
  4. Add raisins, continuing to use your fingers to combine. 
  5. In a small bowl, whisk together egg and buttermilk.
  6. Create a hole in the middle of dough and pour the egg mixture into it. Knead the egg mixture into the dough.
  7. Form dough into a slightly flattened ball and transfer to baking pan. If dough is too sticky and wet to work with add a bit more flour.
  8. Using a small knife, cut an X into the top of the loaf. 
  9. Bake 35-45 minutes until lightly golden.

Notes

Can be made in a cast iron skillet as well, but allow for a few extra minutes in the oven.

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© Jaclyn Shimmel
Cuisine: irish / Category: Appetizers

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You will love this quick and easy Irish Soda Bread with Raisins recipe made with flour, baking soda, salt, sugar, egg, butter, buttermilk, and raisins for St. Patrick's Day or any time of year!

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By Jaclyn Shimmel | 03/02/2018
Filed Under: Recipes, Side Dishes Tagged With: St. Patrick's Day

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  1. Kristin Clark says

    03/08/2018 at 3:32 pm

    Looks and sounds delicious! I will definetely have to try this recipe!

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