Today's Baking with Julia recipe is Irish Soda Bread. Our hosts for this week, Carla of Chocolate Moosey and Cathleen of My Culinary Mission, will have the recipe, or buy the book.
This bread was as easy peasy - only 4 ingredients required, 5 if you add cranberries like I did. I don't even buy buttermilk anymore - I read once that you add one tablespoon of lemon juice to a cup of milk to make a buttermilk substitute so that is what I did for this bread. I made only a quarter recipe because apparently this bread does not keep well.
The bread came out well - no rising time, quick to bake, and a soft, light interior:
I ate a piece warm out of the oven spread with fig jam - it was pretty damn fine, if I say so myself.
27 comments:
Yum..looks so good. Im baking mine right now!!
I still have time to make this yummy loaf. Looks delicious.
Don't you just love that there were only four ingredients and it's so tasty? I halved my recipe, but that was sheerly out of necessity. I only had two cups of flour (oops)! Your bread looks great.
I should have added raisins...!
It looks lovely, and it was so easy! I buy buttermilk, use a little, and then throw out the rest :)
Looks 'pretty damn fine' to me also. Cranberries!!! Only a lawyer, and, not an Irish lawyer, would be that creative. Next time I make it, I am going for the cranberries. Mary Hirsch
http://www.lightsonbrightnobrakes.com/
You read my mind! I just had some lovely soda bread for dinner last night (alas I didn't bake it though).
I added cranberries too! Great minds think alike.
This was just so easy - which was a relief...
Great job! I bet it was good with dried cranberries. I was so surprised at how easy and good this was. I also no longer make buttermilk because it is so easy to make it as you need it.
Hahaha. And I thought that I was already being conservative when I halved the recipe - you quartered it!
Looks like it turned out great!
Your loaf looks perfectly lovely…I love fig jam! A great combo!
Your bread looks great! Next time I make it, I'm going to add dried cranberries (or whatever dried fruit I have in hand).
Oooh, cranberries! Sounds wonderful! :)
Beautiful loaf! I definitely need to try some add-ins next time!
Your loaf looks so pretty! Great post!
The picture of the sliced loaf looks so pretty!
Cranberries sound perfect...I also added some dried fruits and they were a great addition to this recipe.
I bet your quarter loaf was cute! And with fig jam - yum!
Almost too easy to be sooooo good. Buttery, soft.
Mine is still holding up well and made it three days ago.
Yours looks just right.
it is ages since I made soda bread - your photos are so lovely that I itching to make some
Looks great!
I loved how easy this was too! Your loaf looks yummy!
sounds good! i meant to add dried fruit to mine, too, but forgot...next time...
Ohh yum! Love easy recipes :) i've never had Irish Soda bread before!!! I Can't wait to try thanks for sharing :D
Looks great. This is the first year in my memory that I did not make Irish Soda Bread for March 17th...this should tell you the state of my mind right now...totally struggling to keep one foot in front of the other with worry about my son. I hope this changes soon as I am missing out on a lot of fun stuff. Yours is just beautiful.
ooh! fig jam!! love it!
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Four ingredients? No rising time? This may just end up as the second I'm-scared-to-make-proper-bread-bread-recipe.
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