Irish Rosie’s Irish Soda Bread

Irish Rosie’s Irish Soda Bread

  • Prep Time: 20 mins
  • Total Time: 1 hrs 10 mins
  • Serves: 16,Yield: 19 inch bread
  • About This Recipe

    “This Irish soda bread recipe was passed on to me by a dear friend of my mother’s who was born and raised in Ireland. It’s the best Irish soda bread I have ever had. It is much higher, lighter and softer than most other recipes I have seen. It has an excellent flavor and texture, as well.”

    Ingredients

  • 3 1/2 cupsflour
  • 1/2 cupsugar
  • 1/2 teaspoonbaking soda
  • 2teaspoonsbaking powder
  • 1teaspoonsalt
  • 1pintsour cream
  • 2eggs
  • 2tablespoonscaraway seeds( optional but I always use them)
  • 3/4 cupraisins
  • Directions

  • Combine dry ingredients together in a large bowl.
  • In a small bowl beat eggs and stir in sour cream.
  • Add the egg and sour cream mixture to the dry ingredients and stir with a wooden spoon.
  • Batter will be very thick.
  • Add the raisins and caraway seeds and stir well with wooden spoon or knead in with your hands.
  • Place batter in a greased 9 inch springform pan.
  • Dust the top with enough flour so that you can pat the batter like a bread dough evenly in the pan without it sticking to your hands.
  • With a knife make a shallow crisscross on the top.
  • Bake for 50 minutes in a preheated 350ºF oven.
  • Reviews

  • “Wonderfull Soda Bread!!Very light and lots of raisins and caraway. Didn’t change a thing and it is the best I’ve made in years!!A real keeper, thanks for sharing 1Steve, we will make it again and again.”

  • “This was my first time to ever make or taste Irish soda bread. I made it for our St. Patrick’s Day family get-together. It was wonderful. Very light in texture and the caraway seed adds so much to the flavor. I can’t imagine anyone leaving this ingredient out. I am bread-making challenged and I thought this recipe was very easy to make. Thanks 1Steve.”

  • “I made this for an “Irish night” at work and the clients nearly trampled me getting to the table to try this! Several of them gave me their addresses so I could mail then the recipe! This has a velvety texture, the only thing I did that was different cut the caraway in half. Kudos 1Steve!”

  • “I loved It!I would not change a thing.I have been craving Irish soda bread, and this was the best I ever had.It was not difficult to make and It came out very moist.”

  • “I made this to go with our corned beef St. Paddy’s Day dinner on the Zaar “Go Irish-Go Green” cook-a-thon on March 16/17, 2002. What a great choice! This was very easy to whip up, looked great, and tasted even better. Very light and very moist. I had to leave out the caraway seeds due to hubby’s dislike of them, but I’m sure they would add a great taste. I used fatfree sour cream and it worked fine. Thanks for posting this, Steve; it’s a real keeper!”

  • “I’ve made this dozens of times over the past few years but I forgot to rate it. It is a family favorite. I used to just make it around St. Patrick’s day but the kids love it so much I make it year round now. We leave the raisins out so that my picky eaters will still like it. I don’t have a springform pan but it comes out nicely when I grese and flour my round 9″ cake pan.”

  • “Great taste and easy to make.Perfect for St.Patricks dinner.Thanks for sharing therecipe.”

  • “Perfect, perfect, perfect!Soda bread doesn’t get any better than this.We leave out the raisins and caraway seeds due to family preference.Third time around, I subbed 1-2/3 cups sour fat-free milk for the sour cream; couldn’t taste a significant difference when it came out of the oven.Perfect side for lamb stew, weekday breakfast, etc.”

  • “Fabulous1Steve!Made this yesterday and it was just perfect.I can see that this recipe is open to one’s creativity… and am planning to try several different addition ideas.Thanks a bunch for sharing:)”

  • “I have been making this recipe for years and the family expects it every Saint Patrick’s Day!I use chocolate chips and serve it as a dessert!Yum!”

  • “This really is the best Irish soda bread–at least that I’ve eaten.The only change made was that I used golden raisins and soaked them in some Irish whiskey before adding. I can’t wait for breakfast to try it toasted.”

  • “adding my 5* to the rest…this is excellant, crusty, light & flavorful. The only adjustment I made was to ‘plump’ the raisins..covering with boiling water for 2 min. then draining before adding to the batter…I find this not only adds to the appearance but makes them softer.Thanks for a great recipe…”

  • “This is my go-to soda bread recipe.I make this around the holidays every year, and instead of raisins and caraway seeds I’m going for cranberries and candied pecans this time around.”

  • “I am someone who doesn’t like soda bread, but I saw this recipe, read all the great reviews and figured I’d give it a try for St. Patrick’s Day. I have to say I liked it. I think I won’t use the caraway seeds the next time, just as a personal taste preference. Two work colleagues who like soda bread said it was delicious. It is more bread-like and moist; other soda breads I’ve had are hard and dry. It was quick and easy to make. Thank you all!”

  • “Thank you for the recipe.I am a beginner cook and this was the first time I ever tried to make bread.It came out great and disappeared quickly.The recipe was well written and easy to follow!”

  • “This is the best Irish Soda Bread recipe I have come across. I have an old hand written oneI had gotten from a pub in Ireland decades ago… and I thought there was never any topping it.. Thanks for proving me wrong. I did add currants and soaked them in whiskey before adding to the bread. My daughter doesn’t like raisins. It was still a great hit… Thanks for posting this recipe online Steve… * big hugs*”

  • “I made this last week and it went fast.Did not add caraway seeds or raisins due to picky eaters. My 12 year old insisted that I let her make it this week so she can someday make it for her family.Thanks for an easy good recipe.”

  • “Excellent! If I had known Irish Soda bread was so easy I would have made it years ago. I served it with sweet butter for our St Pats Daydinner. I love caraway but I think I would usejust 1 tbls next time. Thanks 1Steve for this special treat.”

  • “This was like the best irish soda bread.It was the first time that I’ve ever made irish soda bread w/caraway seeds in it and at first they took me by suprise, but then they really added a new depth to this bread.The sour cream kept this moist and delisious…wonderful toasted with some butter, thx.”

  • “I made this and it was very good and easy to make.I didn’t have any Caraway seeds so I left those out and it was still good.I’ll make it again sometime and add those.”

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