Craving a delectable bread that combines the goodness of rye and currants? Look no further! Martha's Soda Bread with Rye and Currants is an exquisite treat that tantalizes the taste buds with its unique blend of flavors and textures. This traditional Irish bread is renowned for its rustic charm, dense crumb, and slightly tangy taste. With the addition of rye flour, it gains a nutty flavor and a beautiful dark brown crust, while the currants infuse bursts of sweetness and a chewy texture. Perfect for breakfast, lunch, or as a teatime snack, this soda bread is sure to impress with its wholesome goodness. This article presents two variations of Martha's Soda Bread: the classic recipe and a gluten-free alternative. Both recipes are easy to follow and yield a delicious and satisfying loaf of bread. Let's get baking!
Check out the recipes below so you can choose the best recipe for yourself!
RYE SODA BREAD
Serve this updated rye soda bread with orange marmalade, Irish butter, smoked trout, Cashel Blue cheese, and our simple Watercress Salad for an impressive brunch spread.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Breakfast & Brunch Recipes Bread Recipes
Time 3h
Yield Makes 1 loaf
Number Of Ingredients 5
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Whisk together flours, salt, and baking soda in a large bowl. Gather mixture into a mound; create a deep well in the center. Pour buttermilk into well. Gradually stir flour mixture into buttermilk with a wooden spoon, starting in center and working outward, until a dough forms.
- Transfer dough to a lightly floured work surface and, with lightly floured hands, form a cohesive ball. (Do not overwork dough.) Pat ball into a 7-inch-wide domed round and transfer to a baking sheet. Across top of round, cut a 1-inch-deep X with a floured knife. Poke holes at 1-inch intervals to bottom of dough (about 28 holes total) with a floured wooden skewer.
- Bake bread 30 minutes. Turn bread upside down; continue baking until cooked through and loaf sounds hollow when tapped on bottom, about 10 minutes more. Transfer loaf to a wire rack and let cool completely, about 2 hours, before slicing and serving. Bread can be made 2 days ahead and stored, whole, at room temperature, in a paper bag or wrapped in parchment.
MARTHA'S IRISH SODA BREAD
Martha's traditional quick Irish Soda Bread is studded with flavorful raisins and caraway seeds, and fortified with wheat bran.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Breakfast & Brunch Recipes Bread Recipes
Time 1h30m
Yield Serves 6 to 8
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix milk and vinegar; let stand until thickened, about 5 minutes.
- Whisk together flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda. Cut in butter with a pastry cutter until mixture resembles coarse meal. Stir in bran, seeds, and raisins.
- Add milk mixture; stir until dough just holds together but is still sticky. Turn onto a lightly floured surface. Pat dough into a round loaf, about 7 inches in diameter. Transfer to a parchment-lined baking sheet.
- Lightly dust top of loaf with flour. Using a sharp knife, score an X in top. Bake, rotating halfway through, until loaf is golden brown and a tester inserted in center comes out clean, about 70 minutes. Let cool completely on a wire rack.
RICH IRISH SODA BREAD
By adding an egg, sugar, caraway seeds, and butter to a traditional Irish soda bread recipe, you create a loaf that's moist with more flavor, perfect for a Sunday breakfast or brunch. Wrapped well with plastic wrap, it can be stored at room temperature until the last crumb is eaten. Like all Irish soda breads, this freezes well.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Breakfast & Brunch Recipes Bread Recipes
Yield 1 loaf
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Heat oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper; set aside. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, and caraway seeds until well combined.
- Using a pastry cutter or two knives in scissor fashion, cut in butter until the mixture feels like coarse meal. Stir in raisins until evenly distributed.
- In a small bowl, whisk together buttermilk, egg, and baking soda until well combined. Pour buttermilk mixture into the flour-and-butter mixture all at once, and stir with a fork until all the liquid is absorbed and the mixture begins to hold together. It should resemble a rough biscuit dough. Using your hands, press the dough into a round, dome-shaped loaf about 8 inches in diameter. Lift the loaf from the bowl, and transfer it to the prepared baking sheet.
- In a small bowl, mix the egg yolk and cream together. With a pastry brush, brush the egg wash over the loaf. With a sharp knife or razor, incise a cross, about 1/2 inch deep, into the top of the loaf. Transfer to the oven. Bake, rotating halfway through, until it is deep golden brown and a wooden skewer comes out clean when inserted into the center, about 70 minutes. Remove from oven, and transfer bread from the baking sheet to a wire rack to cool.
BROWN SODA BREAD LOAF WITH CARAWAY SEEDS AND RYE
Some regional variations on Irish soda bread, from Donegal and Leitrim, call for caraway seeds. I love caraway seeds in bread, but in my personal food memory bank they will always be paired with rye. So I decided to add a little rye flour to this already dark brown, grainy and moist bread.
Provided by Martha Rose Shulman
Categories breakfast, brunch, dinner, lunch, side dish
Time 1h
Yield 1 loaf, about 12 slices
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter an 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 2 1/2-inch bread pan.
- In a large bowl, mix together flours, steel-cut oats, rolled oats, brown sugar, salt, caraway seeds and sifted baking soda. Mix well with your hands.
- Make a well in the center of the flour mixture. Pour in the buttermilk. Working from the center of the bowl in concentric clockwise circles, with fingers outstretched stir buttermilk into flour mixture. (You can use a rubber spatula instead if you don't like getting dough on your hands.) This should take about a half a minute at most. Dough will be quite moist. Use a rubber spatula to scrape into bread pan and smooth out dough to fill the pan evenly (pan will be filled only about halfway.)
- Place in oven and bake 40 minutes, until dark brown and a tester inserted comes out clean. Remove from pan and cool on a rack.
Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 183, UnsaturatedFat 1 gram, Carbohydrate 34 grams, Fat 3 grams, Fiber 4 grams, Protein 7 grams, SaturatedFat 1 gram, Sodium 549 milligrams, Sugar 3 grams, TransFat 0 grams
EASY IRISH SODA BREAD
When this classic Irish Soda Bread is easy to make, you'll bake it all year round! The bread will keep, wrapped in plastic, for up to two weeks at room temperature.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Breakfast & Brunch Recipes Bread Recipes
Time 1h
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a baking sheet. In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, raisins, caraway seeds, baking soda, salt, and baking powder. In a separate bowl, whisk buttermilk, eggs, and 2 tablespoons butter. Stir the wet mixture into the dry ingredients to form a dough.
- Knead dough on a lightly floured surface until smooth, about 4 minutes; add more flour as needed to prevent sticking. Form dough into a 9-inch round; place on prepared baking sheet. Brush loaf with remaining tablespoon butter. Using a sharp knife, score an X on top of loaf.
- Bake until skewer inserted in center comes out clean, 45 to 50 minutes. Cool on wire rack before serving.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 217 g, Fat 3 g, Protein 5 g
MAUD HERLIHY'S IRISH SODA BREAD
Maud Herlihy's Irish Soda Bread is a St. Patrick's Day classic. Bill Herlihy, the executive in charge of "The Martha Stewart Show," shares a recipe from his mother, Maud.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Breakfast & Brunch Recipes Bread Recipes
Yield Makes 1 loaf
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees with a rack set in lower third of oven. Lightly butter a 10-inch round cast-iron skillet; set aside.
- In a large bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Add butter, sour cream and egg; mix, using a pastry blender, until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in raisins, buttermilk, and caraway seeds, if using, and mix until a sticky dough forms.
- Turn dough out onto a lightly floured work surface. Using a floured bench scraper, form into a round loaf; using a sharp knife score a large "X" in the center.
- Place in prepared skillet and transfer to oven. Bake until loaf is golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour. If top begins to brown too quickly, loosely cover with a piece of parchment paper-lined aluminum foil. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.
Tips:
- Use good quality ingredients. Organic and freshly milled flours will give you the best results.
- Don't overwork the dough. The more you work it, the tougher the bread will be.
- Let the dough rise in a warm place. This will help it to develop a good flavor and texture.
- Bake the bread at a high temperature. This will give it a crispy crust and a soft, fluffy interior.
- Let the bread cool completely before slicing it. This will help to prevent it from crumbling.
Conclusion:
Martha's Soda Bread with Rye and Currants is a delicious and easy-to-make bread that is perfect for any occasion. It is a great way to use up leftover buttermilk and it is also a good source of fiber and whole grains. Follow the tips above and you'll be sure to have a perfect loaf of soda bread every time.
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