Irish Soda Bread

This delicious Irish soda bread is so simple to make. In this video I added raisins but these are optional.
4 cups of plain/all purpose flour
1 teasp of baking soda/bread soda
1 teasp of sugar
1/2 teasp of salt (optional)
2 cups of buttermilk
1 cup of raisins (optional)
Heat oven to 200/400 degrees and bake for 30 to 40 minutes

[ambrosemclaren]

You are my kind of cook. Not afraid to get your hands in the dough. Who wants to wash a bunch of utensils anyway?
You are so right about the old recipes being the best.

Thank you for all the tidbits about Irish life. Though I descend from Irish blood, my family did not emphasize the glorious heritage it is when we were growing up. I only came to appreciate my homeland later in life when I read about our great Father, St Patrick and the grand contributions the Irish made to civilization.

I love everything Irish!

Thanks.

[retribution]

Great video well presented and authentic. Thanks, will try this.

[rustyruly]

Keeping the irish traditions alive in Canada fair play to you. I'm gonna make your recipe tomorrow for my irish/italian girls.👍🇮🇪☘💗

[amandalowe]

Gráinne's daughter here! Made this today. Was so easy and absolutely delicious!

[christinegitsham]

I recently learned from a baker that you can use sour milk in baking, buttermilk isn't sold in large cartons in england, at least I haven't found it and so I was adding vinegar to milk to curdle my milk. This is ok but I tried the sour milk recipe and the taste of the bread is delicious and fluffy. Simply allow the milk to sour and then it's ready for use. I make my soda bread every other day so was expensive using buttermilk, but now much cheaper to make. Thanks for your recipes, love them . 💐🙏❤️

[arleneshearer]

I'm absolutely loving your recipes! I like your style of explaining and doing things too. Ireland's loss is Canada's gain. Thank you!

[iestynovich]

There was some Soda Bread reduced for quick sale. Never had it before. HOOKED. Remembered - that marvelous Irish lady living in Canada will make that on her channel, I bet. And here we are! Making it tomorrow. Thank you again.

[evapatrick]

Lovely soda bread I'm going to try your receipe.it looks the most traditional.thank you

[elisabethclancy]

This reminds me of the kinda soda bread my grandmother made . I will try it ! Thank you for your wonderful video . My grand parents came from Ireland . It was before 1930 . I am 68 and my grandmother passed away when I was 7 years old and grandfather when I was 16 . I miss them so much . The bread brings back great memories of them and my wonderful times with them . Thank you !

[zubaidaali]

Hello from Singapore.Love to try the Irish soda bread bread.Just watched e raisin scones n for sure I'm going to bake this Irish bread tomorrow morning.Thnks.

[Marcel_Audubon]

I make soda bread every week ... never before seen the piercing technique, I'll give it a try. Americanized version: we add caraway (1 Tbl caraway seeds + 1/4 tsp salt ground to a powder with mortar and pestle). It's a great background flavor and comes from the intermingling of Irish and Eastern European Jewish immigrants (and recipes) on the Lower East Side of NY in the 19th century. Part of our history and delicious! Try it sometime.

[Kojak-zhqo]

I tried this iv never made bread or done any baking it turned out lovely beginners luck it tasted great thanks very much 👍

[starholistic]

I've always wanted to make this my mom used to she's been gone since 2019 and I'm so excited to try to make maybe this week. Thank you!!

[AirborneMOC]

The best buttermilk for cooking is the kind there was on my grandparents' farm back in the 1960's; thick like the half-and-half sold in the stores now, almost whipping cream in consistency. My grandmother drank it by the glass straight out of the cooler. I hated the taste of drinking buttermilk then and still do to this day - but it was awesome for cooking with. My grandmother made similar breads and rolls to soda bread, although she was from Kirrimur Scotland in 1900 by way of the Falkland Islands before ultimately ending up growing up in a soddy on a homestead in what was then Blackie Alberta. Her soda breads and biscuits, her yeast breads, her pancakes; it was all awesome - she got a lot of practice being the cook for threshing crews, roundups, etc.

Anyways, she used a LOT of buttermilk cooking. The thin/skim stuff they sell in the supermarkets today isn't nearly as good for cooking with (in my opinion), and I learned to bake from her. And I don't have cats or anybody in the house who will drink the leftover stuff if I buy the container size they sell to make fried chicken, pancakes, soda breads, etc. Sooo...

Try using the probiotic yogurt you probably have in your fridge i.e. Balkan style unflavoured full fat yogurt; add milk to that until you've thinned it to the consistency of half and half or whipping cream. Give that a go and then taste the results compared to a soda bread made with supermarket buttermilk. I believe the resulting taste is better than the store bought buttermilk or the substitute of adding cream of tarter to whole milk (which she occasionally did when there was no buttermilk).

[gailgulliver]

thank you that look's great I cant wait to try this .x

[dothedewinme]

The make your own buttermilk tip was the handiest thing ever thank you!

[mrsmac]

Simple, easy and oh so good. I appreciate your gentle approach, not being all picky about everything. Baking should be fun. Thanks for sharing. --Kim whose family hails from County Cork

[jerrilynernsting]

We have a great time singing as a kid for holidays..now I'm letting my kids a grandkids know the IRISH decent..also family was slots gathering was great..

[bogotanas]

I made this recipe many times. The bread is delicious! Thank you!

[donnakillewald]

I love listening to you talk. You sound like my Grandparents did. Grandma made Pudding, Fruit Cake, and Soda Bread. They’ve been gone 43 years.