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Basic Irish Soda Bread




Source of Recipe


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List of Ingredients







4 cups flour of your choosing

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon baking powder

salt to taste

buttermilk (1.5 to 2 cups)


Instructions
1.Mix dry ingredients.
2.Add enough buttermilk to make a decent, workable dough (note: if you use cold buttermilk, the bread will take longer to bake).
3.Knead until your dough ball is not a sticky mess (less than a minute).
4.Form into loaf and place on cookie sheet.
5.Cut a cross into top of loaf.
6.Bake at 350 till, as James Beard says, the loaf sounds hollow when rapped with knuckles.
7.Slather with fruit preserves, sandwich fixings or butter


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