Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, raisin soda bread. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

A loaf of Raisin Soda Bread with a hot cup of tea is one of life's little pleasures. Now, a soda bread can be many things. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper (or lightly butter your baking sheet).

Raisin Soda Bread is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Raisin Soda Bread is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have raisin soda bread using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Raisin Soda Bread:

1. Take 4 cups plain flour
2. Make ready 1/4 cup sugar
3. Make ready 1 + 1/2 tsp of salt
4. Take 1 tsp baking soda
5. Get 1/2 stick butter (1/4 cup / 56g)
6. Make ready 1 + 3/4 cups of buttermilk
7. Get 1 egg
8. Make ready 1 cup raisins

Raisins add sweetness to this hearty bread. Why is soda bread so easy to make? If raisins are your thing you can leave them out or replace them with dried cranberries, cherries or your favorite dried fruit. Soda bread may have raisins or caraway seed but traditionally not both together.

Steps to make Raisin Soda Bread:

1. Mix flour, sugar, salt and baking soda and butter together.
2. Mix egg and buttermilk together. Can make buttermilk by adding white vinegar or cider vinegar to milk and leave for 10 minutes to turn into buttermilk. Flavour of cider vinegar will evaporate and not affect the taste of the bread.
3. Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and mix for 1 to 2 minutes. This makes a wet, sticky dough but may need to add a little more flour for handling.
4. Add raisins if using. If raisins are not being added to the mixture, this will be more like a traditional soda bread.
5. Put mixture into baking tin/dish and bake at 375°C / 190°F for 45 to 55 minutes.

The preference for raisins vs caraway was just a regional preference or family tradition. Irish Soda Bread is a Quick Bread. Does the thought of homemade bread send you running for the hills? The raisins are optional, but Grandma would never let you skip them! Stir in raisins and caraway seeds.

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