Best 3 Grandmas Unbaked Irish Soda Bread Recipes

FAVORITE IRISH SODA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, combine first five ingredients. Stir in raisins. Set aside 1 tablespoon beaten egg. In a bowl, combine buttermilk, oil and remaining eggs; stir into flour mixture just until moistened (dough will be sticky). Transfer to a greased 9-in. round baking pan; brush top with reserved egg., Bake 45-50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool. Cut into wedges.

GRANDMA DOLORES' IRISH SODA BREAD

Steps:

• Place lemon juice into the bottom of a glass measuring cup and pour in enough milk to fill to the 1 cup mark-Do not stir!
• Leave milk on your counter for 1 hour- during this time, measure out all of your other ingredients, but wait to set out the butter until the last 15 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 350F and grease a round cake pan or pie plate.
• Sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder, sugar, and salt.
• Using a pastry blender or two knives, cut in the butter chunks until evenly mixed in and mixture looks grainy.
• Stir in dried fruits and caraway seeds.
• Pour the milk mixture into the bowl and stir with a wooden spoon until all ingredients are moistened- don't overmix.
• Dough will still be tacky at this point but will pick up more flour while kneading.
• Sprinkle some flour onto a flat surface and scape dough onto the floured surface; flour your hands and knead the dough gently until it forms a ball- no more than 2 minutes or you will toughen the dough, and it may be less than that depending upon the humidity of the day.
• (As long as it forms a ball, it can still be little sticky- this is different from yeast bread.) Place dough ball into prepared pan and flatten slightly into a thick disk.
• Using a serrated knife, make a deep cross in the surface of the bread.
• Bake until golden brown and until bread sounds hollow on the bottom when rapped, about 35-45 minutes.

GRANDMA MCANDREWS' IRISH SODA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a baking sheet, or line with parchment paper.
• In a large bowl, stir together the flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. In another bowl, whisk together eggs, buttermilk, and corn oil. Make a well in the center of the flour mixture, and pour in the buttermilk mixture. Add the raisins, and stir a few times, just until the ingredients come together into a soft dough. Turn the dough out onto a floured surface, and with floured hands shape dough into a ball. Place the dough on the prepared baking sheet, and cut a large cross in the top with a sharp knife.
• Place the bread on a middle rack of the preheated oven, and bake until golden brown, 30 to 40 minutes.